Rescuers wearing torches on their heads carried Thursday the body of a resident they found under the rubble of a residential building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine that was destroyed by a Russian rocket strike.
They carried the victim away on a stretcher, as firefighters worked their way through the mangled building structure.
The strike on Wednesday in Ukraine’s eastern industrial region of Donetsk killed at least three people and wounded 20 others.
“Peaceful people died and are under the rubble,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote after the rocket strike, according to Agence France-Presse.
“This is the daily reality of life in our country.”
Donetsk regional police said paramedics, search-and-rescue dogs, and explosive experts were combing the area as they believed that more people could be trapped.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov told AFP that Moscow may be planning a counter-offensive on the first anniversary of its invasion of the neighboring country.
“They could try an offensive on two fronts… We need arms to counter the enemy,” he said, according to AFP.
The strike in Donetsk — where Moscow has claimed to have captured fresh ground recently — came as the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine approached. WITH AFP