Ukraine: At least 15 people died in rocket strike in apartment buildings in eastern Ukraine. many of Ukrainian emergency workers worked on Sunday to rescue people from the rubble. It was estimated that more than 20 still remained trapped in the debris.
The rocket strike destroyed three buildings in a residential quarter of the town of Chasiv Yar. inhabited mostly by people who work in nearby industries.
A man who had been trapped for nearly 24 hours was finally freed on Sunday evening after enough bricks and concrete had been cut away by rescuers. He was placed on a stretcher by rescuers, and a hospital was visited right away.
According to Ukraine's Emergency Services, the most recent rescue brought the total number of people pulled from the rubble to six. They made contact with three others who were still alive and trapped beneath the ruins earlier in the day.
The governor of the Donetsk region, which includes Chasiv Yar, Pavlo Kyrylenko, stated that an estimated 24 people, including a 9-year-old child, were still believed to be trapped. Rescue teams and cranes worked together to remove the wreckage of one building, whose walls had been completely torn off by the impact.
A few miles away, the thud of artillery on the nearby front line reverberated, causing some workers to flinch and others to run for cover. according to Viacheslav Boitsov, deputy chief of emergency services in the Donetsk Region Four shells that struck the neighbourhood are probably Iskander missiles.
the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Russia deliberately targeted civilians.
Even though Russia consistently asserts it is only attacking targets with military value. Saturday's attack was just the most recent in a string of assaults against civilian areas in the east. Some analysts believed that it would likely take some time for Moscow's forces to reassemble and rearm following the capture of Lysychansk. But "so far, the enemy has not announced an operational pause. He continues to shell and attack our territory with the same ferocity as before,"
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