The death toll from Russian missile strikes on eastern Ukraine's city of Sloviansk rose to 11 Saturday as rescue crews tried to reach people trapped in the rubble of an apartment building, Ukrainian authorities said.
Emergency workers and volunteers rescue a child at a site of an apartment building damaged by a Russian military strike, amid Russia s attack on Ukraine, in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, Ukraine April 14
A two-year-old child was killed and a 14-year-old girl was injured as a result of a Friday missile strike on Sloviansk, Donetsk region, according to the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine (PGO).
Five people were killed and 15 people were wounded as a result of an attack by the Russian occupation forces on Sloviansk, Donetsk region, the removal of debris continues, Head of Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko has said.
Russia shelled a block of flats in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk on Friday, killing eight people, including a toddler who was pulled out of the rubble but died in an ambulance on the way to hospital, authorities said. The strike on the quiet neighbourhood came as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill that will make it easier to mobilise citizens into the army, and block them from fleeing the country if drafted.