Russian strike kills 9 in eastern Ukraine
An injured elderly man sits on top of the rubble after he was rescued by emergency workers from a partially destroyed residential building following a Russian shelling in Sloviansk. – AFP pic, April 15, 2023.
RUSSIA shelled a block of flats in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, killing nine people, authorities said today, including a two-year-old boy who was rescued from the rubble but died on his way to hospital. Yesterday’s strike on the quiet neighbourhood came as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill that will make it easier to mobilise citizens into the army and block them from fleeing the country if drafted.
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