Russian strike on eastern Ukrainian market kills 16
Russia has shelled a city market in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, killing at least 16 people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday.
“Russian terrorists have attacked a regular market, shops, and a pharmacy, killing innocent people” in the city of Kostyantynivka, located about 25 kilometers west of the besieged city of Bakhmut, Zelenskyy said.
Footage shared by the Ukrainian president shows the strike hitting a busy market street at 2:04 p.m. local time, destroying several cars and shops.
The strike took place on the day of U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s visit to Kyiv.
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Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said 28 people were injured in the strike, which damaged 30 shops and caused a fire that covered 300 square meters.
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that one of the people killed was a child, and called the strike a “horrific act of terrorism.”
This is the second major daytime attack carried out by Russian forces on a civilian Ukrainian target in the past few weeks.
Seven people were killed and over 100 injured in a missile strike on downtown Chernihiv, in northern Ukraine, in August.