International Desk : Eight people have been killed in a Russian missile attack on a residential area in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, police and the governor said.

Read more : Massive fire at New Market

The attack came on Friday 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.

The governor of the Donetsk region Pavlo Kyrylenko said that seven Russian S-300 missiles had been fired at Sloviansk, west of the city Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest fighting on the Ukrainian front line.

Read more : Seventeen people hospitalised

“As of now, casualties at all sites - 21 people were injured and eight people have died,” Kyrylenko said.

Kyrylenko also said there were “no fewer than seven spots hit” in Sloviansk, west of the city Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest fighting on the Ukrainian front line.

Read more : Heatwave may cross 40°C

Ukrainian police said on Twitter that a child died in an ambulance after being pulled out from the rubble.

Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska said the child was a two-year-old boy and sent her condolences to the family during this “indescribable grief”.

Sun News/MR

people killed Russian missile attack Vladimir

Copyright © Sunnews24x7

Tweet

3 killed as truck rams motorbike

Israeli strikes kill 47 Palestinians

15 killed in Russian plane crash

Putin would use nuclear weapons