Updated: 8am, 11th July, 2023 (AEST)
Kyiv, Ukraine
Reuters
A Russian attack on a humanitarian aid distribution point in south-eastern Ukraine killed seven people, emergency services said on Monday, and two people were killed by Russian shelling in the east.
Yuriy Malashko, Governor of Zaporizhzhia region, said a guided aviation bomb was used in Sunday’s attack on a school building being used to distribute aid in the small town of Orikhiv.
A view shows debris of buildings destroyed by a Russian air strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, on 10th July, 2023. PICTURE: Head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration Yurii Malashko via Telegram/Handout via Reuters
Ukrainian emergency services said three bodies were retrieved from under rubble on Monday, bringing the death toll to seven. Rescue and recovery operations were now complete.
Malashko said 11 people wounded in the attack were being treated in hospital. The General Prosecutor’s office said the incident was being investigated as a war crime.
The prosecutor’s office said that two people had been killed and three wounded on Monday in Russian shelling of the village of Hostre and the city of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports. Russia, which began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, 2022, denies deliberately targeting civilians.
Ukraine’s military is conducting a counter-offensive to try to retake Russian-occupied territory in the Zaporizhzhia region.
– Additional reporting by LIDIA KELLY in Melbourne, Australia
