Photograph: Kateryna Klochko/EPARussian attacks across eastern Ukraine killed at least 11 people this weekend, while rescuers in the city of Dnipro dug through rubble after a Russian strike ripped through a nine-storey residential building, leaving one dead, officials said. Meanwhile, the Russian ministry of emergency situations said on Sunday that four firefighters were injured in Ukraine’s shelling of the Donetsk region. “In the Petrovsky district, department firefighters were extinguishing a fire that occurred after [Ukrainian] shelling,” the ministry said on the Telegram messaging app. A further seven people were killed on Saturday afternoon in Russian shelling on the town of Vilniansk, including two children, governor Ivan Fedorov said. “The Russians’ task is simple – to draw more of our forces (to the Belarusian border), Ukraine’s Centre for Countering Disinformation said in a statement.

Source: The Irish Times June 30, 2024 22:54 UTC