Russian cluster munitions kill family of three in Donetsk region
Russian forces killed three civilians, including a 13-year-old girl, in Cherkaske in the Donetsk Region (Oblast) on the morning of 12 October, the head of the Oblast Military Administration, Vadym Filashkin, and the regional police reported. Four other people were injured in the attack.
Photo credit: Vadym FilashkinFilashkin said that Russian forces shelled the settlement using a Smerch multiple-launch rocket system firing cluster munitions.
“The shell hit a house. The lives of an entire family were destroyed in a single strike,” the administration head said, urging people to evacuate from the oblast.
The police specified that the explosion killed the 13-year-old girl, her 36-year-old mother and her 62-year-old grandmother. The injured include three men (born in 1948, 1955 and 1964) and an 18-year-old man.
Russian forces also launched Smerch strikes on a residential area of Sloviansk in the Donetsk Oblast, injuring an elderly woman. Russia launched three Smerch MLRS strikes on a residential area of Sloviansk at around 10 a.m. on 12 October, head of the Sloviansk City Military Administration Vadym Liakh said on his Facebook page.
Russian forces damaged and destroyed at least 44 houses, as well as cars, according to the oblast administration.
A 77-year-old woman was injured. She was hospitalised and is receiving treatment.
ZMINA previously reported that overnight on 8–9 October, Russia attacked Ukraine with 136 drones, 93 of which were jet-powered Shaheds. Air defence forces neutralised 114 drones at the time, but the strikes killed people in Ivano-Frankivsk and Zaporizhzhia.
Furthermore, Russian forces attacked Kyiv and the Kyiv Oblast with missiles and drones on 10 October. The strikes injured at least six people and damaged energy infrastructure. Some residents were left without electricity and water, and the metro and above-ground electric public transport were temporarily suspended in the capital.
Over the week leading up to 11 October, Russian forces used about 1,450 guided aerial bombs, 75 missiles of various types and over 1,640 attack drones against Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. About 60% of the drones were jet-powered.
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