[ad_1] Firefighters working in a burning building at a site following an attack in Dnipro, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 29 December 2023. Handout/Ukrainian Emergency Service/AFP Multiple causalities have been reported after a Russian missile attack in the Ukraine town of Pokrovsk. Among those recorded dead are at least 11 people, including five children. Pokrovsk has been a previous target in the ongoing war with Russia, with a deadly attack in August 2023 that…
"Ukraine says Russian missile attack kills 11 in eastern town"Tag: eastern
[ad_1] POKROVSK, Ukraine — Through the debris-strewn rooms of the bomb-blasted house, the incessant ringing of a phone punctuates the crunch of broken glass splintering underfoot as police lay out a body bag. But the call will never be answered. The phone’s owner crouches lifeless on the floor of his home, in a front room where the explosion from a missile — one of several to hit this eastern Ukrainian town — found him. The…
"Eastern Ukraine towns hit in overnight strikes"
A few kilometres away from the eastern Ukraine frontline, lies an abandoned industrial complex in Avdiivka. There, trucks and other discarded machinery litter the floor. There are signs warning of danger from snipers and doors to the old factory hall are crammed with bullet holes. This is a war that has claimed the lives of 14,000 people, according the United Nations. After Moscow annexed Crimea, the Russian-backed separatists declared Donetsk (or Luhansk) as independent from…
"Snipers and skepticism are common near the frontline of eastern Ukraine."