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Update: 2 people killed, 8 injured in Donetsk Oblast following Russian guided bomb attack
May 29, 2023 7:48 PM
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Two people were killed and eight others were injured after Russian forces shelled the city of Toretsk in Donetsk Oblast, the Prosecutor General's Office reported on May 29.
According to the Prosecutor General, Russian forces likely used FAB-250 bombs to carry out the attack.
One of the guided bombs struck a local gas station and killed a 28-year-old employee.
Eight civilians, including six women and two men, sustained injuries of "varying degrees of severity," the Prosecutor General added.
The second bomb struck an administration building. One person who was injured in the explosion died en route to the hospital in the ambulance.
A gas station, a bank, an educational institution, and an unspecified number of cars were damaged by the attack.
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Kate Tsurkan
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Kate Tsurkan is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent. She is a writer, editor, and translator. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of Apofenie Magazine. Originally from the U.S., she resides in Chernivtsi, a city in the west of Ukraine.
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