Five killed, dozens injured in Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s Pokrovsk
Al Jazeera
Officials say the town near the eastern front line was hit by two Iskander-M missiles fired 30 minutes apart.
At least five people were killed and 41 injured, including four children, after Russia launched two missiles on the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk.
“This is one of the largest enemy attacks on civilians recently,” regional Governor Vadym Filashkin said on Telegram.
Three girls – aged 9, 11 and 13 – and a 12-year-old boy were injured, he added.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking in his nightly video address, said that Ukraine would respond to the attack “in an absolutely fair manner”.
Petro, a local, was circling a badly damaged blue car, the driver’s seat soaked with blood. His son had been killed at the wheel and his grandson was taken to hospital. “My son, he is dead already, it’s done,” he said, weeping.
