Two civilians killed and two injured in Russian strikes on Donetsk Oblast – photos
Two people were killed and two injured in Russian strikes on Druzhkivka and Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast on 18 May. Apartment buildings and houses have been damaged.
Source: Ukraine's State Emergency Service; Kramatorsk City Council
Quote: "Druzhkivka: one person has been killed as a result of a Russian airstrike, firefighters have extinguished a fire in an apartment block.
The enemy carried out an airstrike on the city, killing one person and causing damage."
Details: Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported that a fire had broken out in one of the buildings following the strike.
Firefighters extinguished seats of fire in flats from the ground floor to the fourth floor of an apartment block. The fire covered an area of 100 sq m.
The State Emergency Service urged residents not to delay evacuation and to leave for safer territories.
Update: Russian forces also attacked a residential area in Kramatorsk with a Smerch multiple-launch rocket system on the afternoon of 18 May.
A woman aged about 82 was killed after a rocket struck the area. Two other people were injured: a man aged about 42 is receiving outpatient treatment, while a woman aged about 70 is in hospital in a moderate condition.
More than 15 houses and three vehicles were damaged in the city.
Later, a Russian first-person view (FPV) drone struck a Ukrainian flag in Yuvileinyi Park. The flag itself has been replaced, and the flagpole structure was not damaged.
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