RUSSIA SHELLED A block of flats in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, killing nine people, authorities have said, including a two-year-old boy who was rescued from the rubble but died on his way to hospital.
Vadim Lyakh, the head of Sloviansk’s military administration, said today that nine people died – including a woman whose body was recovered from the rubble overnight – and 21 were wounded.AFP journalists saw rescue workers digging for survivors on the top floor of the typical Soviet-era housing block, and black smoke billowing from homes on fire across the street.
Shocked residents “I live on the opposite side of the street and I was sleeping a little when I heard this huge boom and I ran out from my flat,” 59-year-old resident Larisa told AFP. A resident nearby, who declined to give her name, told AFP the strikes had blown out her windows and dislodged her front door from its frame.
Under the legislation, which Putin signed Friday, a draftee would be banned from travelling abroad and would have to report to an enlistment office once electronic call-up papers were received.
Anyone read the feature in the sunday times today on how the bar and restaurant trade is booming in Kiev. Kind of strange for a war torn country
Fake news
The usual kind of blood and guts war?
Was that the building that AFU used for ammo storage?