According to local authorities, three people were killed and 14 injured on Saturday as a result of rocket fire in the city of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine. The victims are two men, respectively 33 and 36 years old, as well as a 70-year-old woman who fled from Kherson after the occupation of the city, Agerpres reports in a report from the scene.

War in Ukraine: Russian missile attack on the city of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk regionPhoto: Agerpres

The S-300 missile, launched by the Russian army from the occupied territory of the Donetsk region, fell on a battery of garages in one of the districts of the city of Kostiantynivka. The wind of the explosion broke the windows of hundreds of apartments.

“I can’t recover. No one died in our block; however, there are three casualties. It’s terrible,” a woman who lives in one of the neighborhoods affected by the explosion told Agerpres.

Nadia Hryhorivna is 65 years old, and at the time of the rocket attack, she went to a nearby store to buy a cage for her cat.

“We just left the house. (…) We decided to leave the city and went to buy a cage for a cat, and here it happened. I was not far from home. Our staircase and the second staircase were the most affected. The rocket fell in front, between the first and second garages,” the woman said.

The city of Kostyantynivka is located approximately 25 kilometers from the territories occupied by Russian troops and 30 kilometers from Kramatorsk, the temporary capital of the Donetsk region.

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