10 dead in shelling in Russianoccupied Ukraine: Local official
A local Kremlin-installed official blamed Ukraine on Saturday for a shelling that killed 10 people, including children, in a Russian-occupied town in the southern Zaporizhzhia region the previous day.
The Tokmak municipal administration reported on Telegram that the shelling struck three apartment blocks on Friday evening.
At least five people were pulled alive from the rubble and 13 people were hospitalised, according to the Kremlin-installed regional head Yevhen Balitsky.
Russian emergency services continued on Saturday to look for civilians trapped under the ruins of their homes in Tokmak, a part of southern Ukraine that Moscow has illegally annexed from Kyiv after its war on Ukraine started in 2022.
A Ukrainian rocket struck a machine-building plant in Russian-occupied Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, injuring three civilians, posted Vladimir Rogov, a Moscow-based official who helps set Russian government policy in the illegally annexed territories, on Telegram on Saturday.
Leonid Pasechnik, a Kremlininstalled official who reported the strike, said on Telegram that Russian-appointed authorities in Luhansk had planned to put the plant back into operation “in the near future”, but did not say what would have been produced there. Rogov and Pasechnik reported that the rocket strike not only caused casualties but also inflicted damage on residential homes. However, they did not immediately provide evidence to substantiate their claim. Ukrainian officials did not immediately acknowledge or comment on either attack.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, Russian forces shelled a car making food deliveries in the northern Chernihiv region on Saturday, killing its civilian driver, regional Gov. Vyacheslav Chaus said.