Russian drone strikes apartment building in Kramatorsk on 1 December, 2 killed
On 1 December, Russian troops attacked the city of Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast with eight Geran-2 drones (the Russian version of the Iranian-made Shahed), hitting residential buildings and infrastructure facilities and causing fires in an apartment block. Two people have been killed and another five have sustained injuries.
Source: State Emergency Service of Ukraine; Kramatorsk mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko
Details: According to Honcharenko, the first strikes took place at 12:55. Several UAVs hit apartment blocks and a residential area in one of the city's districts.
Early reports estimate that five civilians have sustained injuries – men aged 74 and 71 and women aged 78, 73 and 84. All of them are receiving the necessary medical care.
The first strikes also damaged five apartment blocks, seven houses and seven cars.
At 13:45, the Russians carried out the second strike; four drones hit road infrastructure facilities.
In the evening, at about 18:00, a Russian strike drone hit an apartment block. A large-scale fire broke out across two sections of the building, from the ground to the seventh floors, covering an area of about 4,500 sq m.
The State Emergency Service employees rescued five residents and extinguished the fire. One person was killed.
Updated: Later, the Kramatorsk mayor said that the death toll from the Russian 1 December strike on the apartment block had increased to two.
Rescue workers have recovered a woman's body from under the rubble.
Background: Russian forces attacked residential areas of Kramatorsk on 1 December, injuring four people.
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