Death toll from attack on Kostiantynivka rises to 17 people

Another woman has died as a result of the attack on a market in the city of Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, bringing the death toll to 17.

Source: Oleksii Roslov, Head of Kostyantynivka City Military Administration, in a comment to Suspilne Donbas

Quote: "Three injured people remain in Dnipro and four in Kostiantynivka."

Details: The woman is the seventeenth person to be killed in the Russian attack on the city on 6 September. On that day, 15 people were killed in the strike on the market, according to the final data from the Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office. Another injured woman died on 11 September in a Dnipro hospital.

Background:

• On 6 September, Ukrainian authorities reported that the Russian military had struck the city of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Oblast. It was reported that 16 people were killed and 33 were injured.
• On 19 September, The New York Times, following its own investigation, stated that the strike on the market in Kostiantynivka on 6 September was a "tragic mishap" caused by a Ukrainian missile, not by a Russian attack. The journalists said that the size and shape of the damage and debris found at the scene were consistent with the size and shape of a single weapon – a 9M38 missile launched by a Buk surface-to-air missile system.
• According to a Ukrainska Pravda source, the Air Force did not use the Buk missile system that day.
• When asked to comment on the NYT story, the Strategic Communications Department of the Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief's Office urged the media to wait for the results of the official investigation. 
• The investigation conducted by Ukraine’s Security Service said that on 6 September 2023, the Russian occupiers hit the market in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, with an S-300 missile.

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