Russia drops aerial bombs on central Kramatorsk: apartment blocks hit, two people killed – photos
Russian forces dropped four aerial bombs on Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast on 7 September morning, hitting apartment blocks and killing two people.
Source: Kramatorsk City Council
Quote: "Today, 7 September, at dawn, Russian forces carried out a massive airstrike on the Kramatorsk hromada. Between 05:34 and 05:52, Russian forces carried out four strikes using FAB-250 aerial bombs with unified gliding and correction modules."
[A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]
Details: Two strikes hit multi-storey residential buildings in the central part of the city, while another struck a bridge structure in the settlement of Yasnohirka.
An unexploded munition was found near an apartment block in the city centre.
Three apartment blocks in the central part of Kramatorsk are also reported to have been damaged.
Two men, aged 67 and 46, were killed as a result of the Russian attack.
Four more Kramatorsk residents were injured: a man aged 60 and three women aged 61, 58 and 79.
"The appropriate services are working at the sites of the strikes. The consequences of the attack and the extent of the damage are being assessed," the city council stated.
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