The death toll of the Russian bombardment in Pokrovsk rises to seven
The death toll in the Russian bombardment perpetrated this Monday against the town of Pokrovsk now rises to seven, as reported early in the morning by Pavlo Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration. As detailed by Kirilenko, who visited the city during the night, among the fatalities there are five civilians, an employee of the Emergency Services and a military man. At least 67 people were injured, including 29 police officers and seven rescue workers.
“Two missiles have fallen. An ordinary residential building has been hit,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on social media Monday night, shortly after the Russian attack. The second shell fell about 40 minutes after the first, which explains the death toll among security and rescue forces.
Both in the video posted by the head of the Ukrainian Executive and in other recordings released later from Pokrovsk, you could see the moments after the two Russian projectiles hit the top of the five-dwelling building. In the images, neighbors and members of the emergency teams tried to pull some of the residents out of the rubble and practiced first aid on the injured.
As detailed by Kirilenko, the bombing hit “residential buildings in the private sector, a hotel, catering establishments, shops and administrative buildings.” The possibility of further attacks meant that emergency work had to stop overnight, but it has since resumed.
Pokrovsk, in territory controlled by Ukrainian forces, with some 60,000 inhabitants before the start of the war, is located about 70 kilometers northwest of the city of Donetsk, capital of the homonymous province.
