Feb 16 (Reuters) - Russian Grad rockets and barrel artillery slammed into a residential district in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Thursday, killing three men and two women and wounding nine more, Ukraine's prosecutor general said, adding it was being...
“Five dead and nine wounded due to shelling of Bakhmut by the invaders,” read a caption under blurred images of the victims shared on Telegram by the office of the prosecutor general. “Criminal proceedings have been initiated.”
There was no immediate word from Moscow on the allegation that civilians were killed, and Reuters could not independently confirm the battlefield report. The prosecutor general’s office said the regional office in Donetsk was leading pre-trial investigations and criminal proceedings under the section of Ukraine’s criminal code that covers violations of the laws and customs of war.
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