Russian strikes kill girl, 11, and mother in east Ukraine, hurts 16 more
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Smoke billowing from a Russian double-tap air strike on a petrol station in Kramatorsk, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, on Feb 9.
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- A Russian airstrike killed an 11-year-old girl and her mother, wounding 14 in Sloviansk, Donetsk, on Feb 10.
- Sloviansk, a "fortress city" near the front line, is a frequent Russian target as Russia demands more Donetsk territory.
- Ukraine refuses Russia's demand for 20% of Donetsk for peace; both sides deny targeting civilians.
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KYIV – Russian strikes on Ukraine’s eastern city of Sloviansk killed an 11-year-old girl and her mother in attacks that left 16 others wounded, the authorities in the embattled Donetsk region said on Feb 10.
Moscow’s troops have been edging towards Sloviansk, a city in the Donetsk region that briefly fell to separatist forces in 2014 and had a population of around 100,000 before Russia invaded in 2022.
“The dead are an 11-year-old girl and her mother. Among the wounded is a seven-year-old girl,” regional official Vadym Filashkin wrote on social media.
Separately, on the Russian-occupied side of the southern Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian strikes killed five and wounded nine, the Moscow-installed head of the Vasylivka municipality, Ms Natalia Romanichenko, said on the social media site VK.
A man was also killed in a Ukrainian drone strike in Russia’s Belgorod region, according to local authorities.
The Ukrainian strikes on the Zaporizhzia region hit a funeral gathering in the village of Skelky, Ms Romanichenko said, which killed a priest and injured seven people.
And the governor of Russia’s border Belgorod region, Mr Vyacheslav Gladkov, said a Ukrainian attack killed a man driving a truck in a border village.
Donetsk prosecutors said the number of wounded civilians in Sloviansk had “increased to 16”, publishing images of badly destroyed houses.
Sloviansk Mayor Vadym Lyakh said Russia struck the city with glide bombs at around 10am local time and that one of the wounded was a seven-year-old child.
“One of the strikes hit a private house,” Mr Lyakh said.
Ukraine’s national police published a video of a completely crushed house covered in rubble.
The wider Donetsk region is one of five regions the Kremlin claims are part of Russia.
Moscow’s forces are around 15km from the city.
There has been no diplomatic breakthrough, despite a US push, to resolve the war.
Later in February marks four years since Russia launched its invasion
