Ukrainian rockets fired into a Russian-occupied city hit a bakery and killed at least 28 people, including nine women and a child, over the weekend, Moscow officials said.
Russian-backed leaders in the occupied Luhansk region claimed Ukraine attacked the Adriatic Restaurant in the city of Lysychansk on Saturday with US-supplied ammunition.
The restaurant had a bakery serving the public, which was caught in the blast and buried under its rubble, Moscow-appointed official Leonid Pasechnik said in a statement.
Pasechnik said 28 people were killed in the explosion and another 10 people were quickly rescued from the debris.
At least four more people were pulled out by Sunday morning, with all of them listed in “very serious condition,” according to Russia’s emergency ministry.
First responders work to clear rubble from a bakery in Lysychansk that Russia says was hit by a Ukrainian rocket on Saturday. AP
Moscow’s Foreign Ministry condemned Saturday’s strike and tried to use the incident to warn the European Union about what its money would be used for after the EU agreed to allocate 50 billion euros, or more than $54 billion, to Kyiv.
“EU citizens should know how their taxes are used – they are used to buy lethal weapons systems and send them to the Kyiv regime which uses them to kill civilians,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.
Ukrainian officials have yet to comment on Saturday’s attack.
At least 28 people, including nine women and a child, were killed in the attack. AP
The explosion in Luhansk came amid an escalating series of attacks between Moscow and Kyiv over the past 24 hours, with Ukraine’s General Staff warning on Sunday that Russia had stepped up its offensive on the front lines.
At least one civilian was killed and two others wounded by Russian artillery fire aimed at the border town of Toretsk, according to Donetsk region Governor Vadym Filashkin.
Kyiv officials said Russia fired 16 separate rounds along the northern community, while Ukraine had also launched a series of counterattacks.
About 10 other people were pulled from the rubble alive, with four others hospitalized in “very serious condition.” ZUMAPRESS.com
On Saturday, reports emerged that a pair of Ukrainian drones struck a major oil refinery in southwestern Russia, sparking a fire and marking the latest attack on Kremlin fuel facilities.
The drone strike hit a refinery owned by Lukoil, an industrial giant that has been described as “one of the leading companies in Russia’s oil and gas industry.”
A Ukrainian source told Reuters, “By hitting an oil refinery working for the Russian military-industrial complex, we not only cut the logistics of fuel supplies for enemy equipment but also reduced the filling of the Russian budget.”
With Postal wire
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