(Reuters) – Russian forces shelled a residential area of the eastern Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring three, prosecutors said. Prosecutors in eastern Donetsk region, in a report appearing on the Telegram messaging app, said the attack used a multiple rocket launcher. One body was pulled from under rubble. Reuters […]
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Russian forces shell eastern Ukraine town, one dead, prosecutors say
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(Reuters) – Russian forces shelled a residential area of the eastern Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring three, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors in eastern Donetsk region, in a report appearing on the Telegram messaging app, said the attack used a multiple rocket launcher. One body was pulled from under rubble.
Reuters could not independently verify battlefield accounts.
Kostiantynivka has long been viewed as a key target for Russian forces advancing slowly westward through Donetsk region. It lies northeast of Pokrovsk, the sector seeing the heaviest fighting on the eastern part of the 1,000-km (600-mile) front line.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski in Winnipeg and Oleksandr Kozhukhar; Editing by Matthew Lewis)