Russian strike on Ukraine city kills seven, damaging hotel used by journalists
Rescue workers are searching through the rubble of an apartment block and hotel regularly used by journalists covering the war in Ukraine after two missile strikes on the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk killed at least seven people and injured tens more, The Guardian reports.
After the attack early on Monday evening, Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Moscow had struck an “ordinary residential building”, publishing footage of a typical Soviet-era five-storey building that had its top floor destroyed.
A nearby hotel and a pizzeria used by correspondents were also damaged in the strike although it is understood that few would have been staying at the time of the strike as concerns about the potential risk of a strike on the city, which is close to the frontline, had been circulating.
The interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, said seven people, including five civilians, were killed. Overnight, regional officials had said that eight people had died.
