Russian missile kills two ladies at market in east Ukraine | World News

A Russian missile slammed right into a village market in east Ukraine on Monday, killing two ladies and wounding 4 others together with a 10-year-old woman, regional prosecutors mentioned.

Footage posed by public broadcaster Suspilne on the Telegram messaging app confirmed rescue employees sifting by way of massive piles of rubble, burning particles and a big crater in Shevchenkove, about 80 km (50 miles) southeast of town of Kharkiv.

A photograph posted on-line by the Ukrainian president's workplace confirmed rescuers making an attempt to drag out a girl in a thick winter coat. Her head and arms poked out from below the rubble nevertheless it was not clear whether or not she was alive.

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"The Russian military dedicated one other act of terror in opposition to the civilian inhabitants — a toddler was wounded, two ladies had been killed," the regional prosecutor's workplace mentioned. "An enemy missile hit the territory of the native market."

It mentioned in a written assertion that it had opened an investigation into a possible conflict crime, citing preliminary info that the assault got here from an S-300 air defence system in Russia's Belgorod area bordering Ukraine.

Reuters couldn't instantly confirm the reviews. Russia, which invaded Ukraine greater than 10 months in the past, didn't instantly touch upon the reviews from Shevchenkove, which Ukraine retook in September after months of Russian occupation.

Criticising Russia over the assault, Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, wrote on Telegram: "Widespread terrorists."

Oleh Synehubov, the Kharkiv area's governor, wrote on Telegram that a 60-year-old girl had been killed and the opposite victims had been being handled in hospital.

The prosecutors gave no particulars of the others victims besides to say that each one had been feminine and one was aged 10.

Suspilne quoted an area official as saying not less than three pavilions had been destroyed within the assault and that a purchasing centre was broken, however that Monday was not a market day.