Three people were killed and twelve injured on the night of Tuesday February 13 to Wednesday February 14 during Russian bombings against Selydove, near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, according to local authorities.
These strikes hit nine apartment buildings as well as the hospital in this town, located about twenty kilometers west of the front, the municipal council said on Telegram. A child was among those killed, and four among the injured, according to the same source.
According to the governor of the Donetsk region, Vadym Filachkin, a first strike took place around 11:30 p.m. (9:30 p.m. GMT) and a second around 1 a.m. (11 p.m. GMT). Around 100 patients from the damaged hospital were evacuated to other hospitals in Pokrovsk and Myrnograd, he added on Telegram.
No source immediately specified what type of strikes were (missiles, drones or artillery fire).
Selydove, which had around 21,000 inhabitants before the war, is located in the vicinity of the large city of Donetsk, which has been occupied by Russia since 2014.
Furthermore, two Ukrainian drones were intercepted during the night from Wednesday to Thursday by Russian air defense above the Belgorod region, near the border with Ukraine, another above Voronezh and six others in above the Black Sea, according to the Russian Defense Ministry cited by the Ria Novosti agency. According to the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, a woman was injured and was hospitalized.
With AFP
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