FOG BLOG WORLD NEWS LOG: 15 PEOPLE KILLED AS RUSSIA BOMBS APT BUILDING IN DONETSK REGION!

At least 15 killed in rocket strike on apartment building in eastern Ukraine More than 24 people thought to be trapped in rubble of five-storey block in town of Chasiv Yar At least 15 people have died and dozens were injured after a series of rockets fired by Russian forces hit a five-storey apartment building in the town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine, as Moscow was accused of raising “true hell” in Donbas, stepping up the assault on the city of Sloviansk.

Earlier in the morning, Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of the Donetsk region, said on Telegram that more than 24 people could be trapped under the rubble of the apartment block, as rescue operations were still under way.

Andriy Yermak, the chief of staff to Ukraine’s president, said the strike was “another terrorist attack” and that Russia should be designated as a “state sponsor of terrorism” as a result.

According to Kyiv, the building was hit by Russian Uragan rockets fired from truck-borne systems.

The Ukrainian emergency services initially gave a death toll of 10, but later revised the figure to 15.

Five people have been recovered from the rubble, while the emergency services said rescuers were in verbal contact with three other people under the ruins.

“We ran to the basement, there were three hits, the first somewhere in the kitchen,” a resident, Ludmila, 24, told Reuters. “The second, I do not even remember, there was lightning, we ran towards the second entrance and then straight into the basement. We sat there all night until this morning.”