48 victims: clearing of the debris of a high-rise apartment building completed in Chasiv Yar

YEVHEN KIZILOV —  THURSDAY, 14 JULY, 11:31

Rescue workers of the State Emergency Service have completed clearing the debris of a 5-story building in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast, which was fired on by Russian forces on 9 July. 48 bodies were removed from the rubble.

Source: Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration; Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Office of the President, on Telegram

Details: According to Kyrylenko and Tymoshenko, a total of 48 people, including a 9-year-old boy, were killed in the apartment building by the rocket attack. Another 9 people were rescued.

The search operation lasted 5 days; 323 people and 9 pieces of equipment were involved in it.

Rescuer workers cleared about 525 tons of destroyed elements of the building.

Background: 

• On 9 July, Russian forces attacked Chasiv Yar, striking a five-storey building 
• On 13 July, the 48th victim was found under the rubble of the building
• The Ministry of Defence of Russia claimed that allegedly "more than three hundred nationalists were destroyed" by a missile attack on Chasiv Yar