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Ukraine: 15 killed in Russian rocket attack on apartment building
Rescue workers stand on the rubble at the scene in the aftermath of a missile strike that his a residential apartment block, in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 10, 2022

RUSSIAN rockets hit the eastern Ukraine town of Chasiv Yar, destroying a five-storey apartment building and killing at least 15 people, officials said today.

Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the Donetsk region, said about three dozen people could be trapped in the rubble. Rescuers have made contact with two people who are under the wreckage, he said today.

The Ukrainian emergency services initially gave a death toll of six, but later said it had risen to 10. They did not say how many people may still be in the rubble.

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