Russian airstrike wounds 5, including children, in Sloviansk
Russian forces hit a residential area of Sloviansk on Thursday, injuring 2 children and damaging six apartment blocks, Ukraine's emergency service said.
Incidents in this story
- Sloviansk · Thursday 22 October: Airstrike on residential Sloviansk neighbourhood (5 injured)
- Sloviansk · overnight 17 October: Earlier FAB-250 bombing of Sloviansk (7 killed, 12 injured)
Russian forces launched an airstrike on a residential neighbourhood in Sloviansk, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, on Thursday, wounding 5 people including 2 children, said. The injured children are 8 and 13 years old.
The strike damaged six apartment buildings, a hotel and a shop, and set seven cars and the hotel roof alight, the emergency service said. Firefighters put out the blazes at the scene. Separate Russian artillery shelling elsewhere in the city set fires on the second floor of a high-rise building and inside a private home the same day; those fires were also extinguished without further casualties reported.
Authorities expanded orders for families with children to cover all towns and villages in the Kramatorsk and Sloviansk communities, regional governor Vadym Filashkin said. "Staying there with children is an unjustifiable risk," he said, adding that the security situation kept worsening as Russian forces struck the two cities daily. Specialised police and emergency service teams are helping affected families relocate to safer regions of Ukraine once they reach transit points, Filashkin said.
Russian forces have repeatedly bombed Sloviansk this month. An earlier strike using FAB-250 aerial bombs hit a residential block in the city overnight on October 17, killing 7 people and injuring 12, and partially destroying two of eight damaged apartment buildings, according to NV.
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What we know
- An airstrike on a residential area of Sloviansk wounded 5 people, including 2 children aged 8 and 13.
- Six apartment buildings, a hotel and a shop were damaged; the resulting fires were extinguished.
- Authorities expanded mandatory evacuation orders for families with children across Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
- An earlier strike on Sloviansk on October 17 killed 7 people and injured 12.
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Why it matters for Europe
Sloviansk and Kramatorsk are among the last major Ukrainian-held cities in Donetsk region, and Russian forces have been edging closer for months, with front lines now between 5 and 15 kilometres away, depending on the sector. A local official said in mid-October that about 350 children still lived in areas of the two communities under mandatory evacuation orders, and that more than 70,000 people, including roughly 3,000 children, remained in Kyiv-controlled parts of Donetsk region, La Libre reported.
Kramatorsk itself was hit by a strike that killed 4 people on Tuesday, and 30 people died two weeks earlier when a strike hit two buses in the city, La Libre reported. Increasing use of drones by Russian forces has extended the range of attacks on the two communities to tens of kilometres beyond the front line, Liga.net reported, citing the regional administration.
Sources
Reported by 7 reports from 6 independent outlets in 3 countries.
- NV: Війська РФ завдали авіаудару по Слов’янську: пошкоджено будинки, серед поранених — діти
- Nice-Matin: « Crash est tombé au champ d’honneur » : un combattant français originaire des Alpes-Maritimes tué dans une frappe de drone en Ukraine
- NV.ua: Russian airstrike on Sloviansk neighborhood injures five, including children
- Liga.net: У Краматорську та Слов'янську оголосили примусову евакуацію всіх сімей із дітьми
- La Libre: L'Ukraine ordonne l'évacuation des familles de ses derniers grands bastions dans l'Est
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Questions and answers
- How many people were hurt in the Sloviansk strike?
- Five people were wounded, including 2 children aged 8 and 13, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.
- Why are evacuations being expanded?
- Regional governor Vadym Filashkin said the security situation in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk kept worsening, with Russian forces striking daily.
- Has Sloviansk been hit before?
- Yes. A Russian strike using FAB-250 bombs killed 7 people and injured 12 in the city on October 17.
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