At least 28 killed in Ukrainian attack on bakery in Russian-occupied Luhansk region

The Ministry of Emergency Situations Russia The death toll rose to 28 today in the attack carried out on Saturday by Ukrainian artillery against a bakery in the annexed eastern region of Luhansk.

“The emergency team saved ten people. Sadly, 28 people, including a child, died”, says the official statement.

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Among the dead are 18 men, 9 women and a childto which we must add four seriously injured people who are in intensive care.

The two-story building located in the city of Lisichanskinhabited by around 100,000 people before the start of the war, it collapsed allegedly as a result of the impact of an enemy projectile.

Rescue teams clear rubble, remove bodies of victims and search for survivors inside a bakery destroyed by the recent bombing in the city of Lisichansk, on February 3, 2024. (Photo by Leaflet / Russian Emergencies Ministry / AFP) (PHOTO /)

Rescue efforts took place throughout the night and will continue throughout the day on Sunday, as emergency personnel have only cleared 65% of the building’s rubble.

The leader of the Lugansk People’s Republic, Leonid Pasechnikinitially assured that dozens of people could have been trapped in the building.

Pasechnik, who declared Sunday a day of mourning in the republic, denounced on Saturday a massive attack against the city, under control of the Russian Army since July 2022.

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharovademanded from international organizations a “unconditional condemnation”of the Ukrainian attack.

Zakharova added that the bombing carried out, according to preliminary data, with Western weapons, represented the “gratitude“Ukrainian for”generous” Assistance of 50 billion euros approved this week by the European Union.

In mid-January, a similar attack left around thirty civilians dead and around twenty injured in a market in the capital of Donetsk.

Source: Elcomercio