A Russian glide bomb struck a village in eastern Donetsk region on Tuesday, killing 24 people standing in queue for pensions.
Some 19 people were injured in the attack that occurred at 11 a.m. local time in the village of Yarova village, north of Slovyansk city 10 kilometres from the frontline. The attack targeted a pension distribution place and most of the victims were elderly people, the head of the local administration in the nearby city of Lyman, Oleksandr Zhuravlyov said. Sharing footage of the aftermath of the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged international response to Russia’s targeting of civilians.
“The world should not remain silent. The world should not remain inactive. The United States needs a reaction. Europe needs a reaction. The G20 needs a reaction. Strong action is needed so that Russia stops bringing death,” Zelenskiy wrote on a Telegram post. The death toll is among the heaviest attacks on Ukrainian civilians in recent weeks, almost four years into Russia’s full-fledged invasion.
Twenty-three civilians were killed in Russian overnight attack on capital Kyiv in late August. Kremlin launched its largest-air raid on Kyiv over the weekend, killing at least three people and damaging the building of the cabinet of ministers.
