Russian bombs kill two in eastern Ukraine, say officials

KYIV - Russian guided bombs killed two civilians in the eastern Ukrainian city of Toretsk on May 28 and heavily damaged two apartment buildings, Donetsk regional governor Vadym Filashkin said.

Mr Filashkin, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said Russian forces deployed three bombs in the city north of the Russian-held regional centre of Donetsk.

Rescue teams were on site to determine the extent of casualties.

Photos posted by Mr Filashkin and by Donetsk regional prosecutors showed entire sections of the apartment buildings wrecked and rubble strewn in the street.

Donetsk prosecutors also said a Russian guided bomb injured six people in Oleksievo-Druzhkivka, a town north-west of Toretsk.

The governor of southern Kherson region said Russian shelling killed a resident of a village north of the region’s chief administrative centre, also called Kherson.

Prosecutors also said Russian shelling struck port facilities in the Black Sea city of Odesa.

Russia denies targeting civilian infrastructure, which may be considered a war crime.

Ukraine’s military general staff said Russian forces had launched 25 assaults and were trying to establish fire control throughout the length of the 1,200km front line.

The heaviest fighting was in the Pokrovsk sector, north-west of Donetsk, it said.

The Ukrainian military published photos it said showed that an attack on May 27 on the Russian-held city of Luhansk in the north-east targeted an airfield where a radar installation was deployed.

Russia-installed officials acknowledged two attacks in the span of three hours on Luhansk on May 27, but made no reference to an airfield or military installations and reported no casualties or damage.

Reuters could not independently verify battlefield accounts from either side. REUTERS