War in Ukraine: Five dead after Russian attack near Donetsk
Five people have been killed in a Russian airstrike in the town of Avdivka, near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
The town of Avdivka, very close to Donetsk in eastern Ukraine , was the target of a Russian attack last night that killed at least five people and injured 19, Human Rights Commissioner for the Ukrainian Parliament Lyudmila Denisova said today.
"Five civilians were killed and 19 were injured," a Ukrainian official told the Telegram, adding that Avdivka was "the target of artillery fire and (Russian) airstrikes, which completely destroyed the village."
Avdivka, home to 30,000 people in peacetime, is located northwest of Donetsk, the industrial center of eastern Ukraine, which has been under the control of pro-Russian separatists backed by Moscow since 2014.
In Lysyansk, 150 km northeast of Donetsk, two other people were killed, three wounded and eight rescued from the rubble after another blow by the Russian army, he continued.
In another message on her Telegram channel later in the morning, Lyudmila Denisova said a Russian tank fired at a car carrying a family of two in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine.
The family had shouted that they were civilians and had raised a white flag, to no avail, he said. The parents and their nine-year-old daughter were killed and a 17-year-old teenager was injured, he added.
