Russian shelling has killed at the least 16 individuals and wounded 20 others at a market within the japanese Ukrainian metropolis of Kostiantynivka, the nation’s prime minister says.
Related Press journalists on the scene noticed coated our bodies on the bottom and emergency staff extinguishing fires at market stalls, with blackened mangled vehicles close by.
Prime Minister Denys Smyhal mentioned at the least 16 individuals had been killed, with 20 wounded.
The variety of useless was anticipated to rise.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned the assault, saying a market, retailers and a pharmacy had been struck within the industrial metropolis near the battlefield, and about 30km from the town of Bakhmut, the place preventing has been heavy for months.
“Anybody on the planet who remains to be coping with something Russian merely ignores this actuality. Heinous evil. Brazen wickedness. Utter inhumanity,” he posted on social media web site X.
Ukrainian officers posted a video on the Telegram messaging app which confirmed a loud explosion ripping by way of buying alleys, with individuals falling to the bottom and a few working for canopy.
Native media described it as a missile assault.
“This Russian evil should be defeated as quickly as potential,” Zelenskiy mentioned.
Inside Minister Ihor Klimenko mentioned that along with the 16 killed, at the least 28 individuals had been wounded within the assault and mentioned it was on the central metropolis market.
On the Telegram messaging app he posted footage exhibiting rescue staff sifting by way of the rubble and finishing up our bodies in black sacks.
Kostiantynivka is within the Donetsk area, components of that are occupied by Russian forces.
The assault got here as US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited the capital Kyiv, the place he was anticipated to announce greater than $US1 billion ($A1.6 billion) in new funding for Ukraine.
The primary prime US official to go to Kyiv for the reason that counteroffensive started in early June, Blinken had talks with International Minister Dmytro Kuleba and was because of meet Zelenskiy.
“We need to make it possible for Ukraine has what it wants, not solely to achieve the counteroffensive, however has what it wants for the long run, to make it possible for it has a powerful deterrent,” Blinken mentioned standing alongside Kuleba.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned that US help to Ukraine “cannot affect the course of the particular navy operation”.
with Reuters and DPA