Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today, Sunday, that the military situation around the city of Bakhmut, which has been besieged by Russian forces for months, is “very inflamed.”
Zelensky, in his nightly speech via video conference, added that two people were killed in a Russian mortar attack in the northern Sumy region.
He referred to earlier reports that Russian bombing killed six people in the city of Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
Aftermath of the bombing in Kostyantinivka
Six people were killed today in a Russian missile strike targeting a densely populated district in the city of Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine, according to the police.
Agence France-Presse correspondents saw a large hole in the courtyard of a 14-storey tower whose windows were shattered, and the roofs of nearby houses were destroyed.
Donetsk region police said Russia fired S-300 and Uragan missiles in a “major attack”, with six strikes shortly after 10 am.
Kostyantinivka is located about 27 km from the city of Bakhmut, where the fiercest battles take place.
The Public Prosecution announced that three women and three men, whose ages ranged between the late forties and mid-sixties, were killed, and eight people were injured. The police said that the strike targeted “16 residential buildings, eight houses, a nursery, an administrative building, three cars and a gas pipeline.”
