Twenty-three killed in Russian strike on pension queue, Ukraine says

Twenty -three people were killed in a Russian air strike on a village in eastern Ukraine, according to a local official.

President Folodimer Zelinski said the victims were ordinary people who collected their pensions in the Donetsk settlement in Yarova. Donetsk regional leader Vadim Villachkin said that emergency services were at the scene and that many people were killed.

Yarova to the north of Slovinsk, one of the major cities in the region, and not far from the confrontation line as Russian forces advanced slowly in the east.

If confirmed, the death toll will be among the heavily attacks on Ukrainian civilians in recent weeks, and 42 months in the full invasion of Russia.

Twenty -three people were killed in air strikes during the night in the capital of Ukraine Kyiv at the end of August.

On the weekend, Russia launched the largest air attack on the war on Kiev so far, as it struck the main government building in the capital, while Zelinski said it was an “ruthless” attack aimed at prolonging the war.

He posted graphics shots to attack Yarova Online, Zelensky said that “there are no words” to describe the latest Russian strikes. There was no immediate response from the Russian army.

The head of the relative local administration, Olikander Chorflioff, said that the attack took place at about 10:40 local time (07:40 GMT) on Tuesday, when pensions were distributed.

Twenty -three people were killed and 18 wounded, according to the latest victims, he said to the public broadcaster in Ukraine.

The photos from the scene showed a severely damaged Ukrainian postcart car used to distribute pension.

The head of the Okraboushta service said that the car was parked under the trees as a security measure and was a local mail official who was injured in the attack. “Perhaps someone gave coordinates,” speculation.

Yarova sits on a major railway between the cities of Lyman and Isium. It is also about 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) from the following village of Novoselvka, where Russian forces are closed on the suburbs.

Zhuravlyov told Superilne that they should know how the postal service can continue to distribute pensions: “Since the confrontation line is less than 10 kilometers, we will” far “all these payments, so that they can get their pensions in safer places.”

The government emergency service in Ukraine said that three other people passed away in the former Russian bombing of the Donetsk settlements.

“The world should not remain silent,” Zelinski said, and it calls for a response from both the United States, Europe and the G20 Group of Nations.