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At least two people have been killed and a further 27 injured following a Russian air strike on a shopping centre and market in the town of Dobropillia in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, officials have said.<\/p>\n
More than 50 shops, 300 apartments and eight cars were damaged in the attack on Wednesday evening, regional governor Vadym Filashkin said on Telegram.<\/p>\n
In his nightly address, President Volodymyr Zelensky described the strike as “simply horrific” and said there was “no military logic” to it. Russia has not commented.<\/p>\n
It comes as the US special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, is in Kyiv on a week-long trip to discuss US-Ukrainian co-operation with Zelensky.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“The Russians have again deliberately targeted an area where there are lots of people – a shopping centre in the middle of town,” governor Filashkin wrote on Telegram on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“This time with a 500-kg (1,100-pound) air bomb.”<\/p>\n
Filashkin said the bomb had been dropped at 17:20 local time (14:20 GMT) when the area was busy with people out shopping.<\/p>\n
Situated 20km (12 miles) from the frontline, and north-east of the city of Pokrovsk – a focal point of Russia’s slow advance through the Donetsk region – Dobropillia has been subject to other attacks since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n
In March, a rocket, drone and missile attack killed 11 people in the town, including five children.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Russia’s defence ministry had shot down three drones flying towards the capital in the early hours of Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
He said emergency service were working at the site of the wreckage but he did not mention casualties. Ukraine has not commented on the strikes.<\/p>\n