A previous toll reported 8 dead. A total of seven missiles were fired, damaging five buildings, five houses, a school and an administrative building.
The toll of a Russian strike on a building in Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine, increased to 11 dead on Saturday the day after a missile launch, while a previous report reported 8 died on Friday.
“The number of victims of the shelling of Sloviansk has risen to 11 people,” spokeswoman for Ukraine’s Emergency Situations Service for the eastern Donetsk region, Veronika Bakhal, said on television.
This attack on Sloviansk, a city located 45 kilometers northwest of Bakhmout, also left 23 injured, according to the town hall.
Sloviansk targeted by 7 anti-aircraft missiles
Sloviansk, which had a pre-war population of 22,000, was targeted Friday by seven Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missiles, which damaged five buildings, five houses, a school and an administrative building, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Moscow of “brutally bombing” residential buildings and “killing people in broad daylight”.
AFP reporters saw on Friday rescuers searching for survivors on the top floor of a residential building and black smoke billowing from burning houses across the street.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, a mother and her daughter were killed this Saturday in a Russian bombardment on Kherson, in the south of the country, announced on Telegram the head of the presidential administration, Andriï Yermak.
