Ukraine's State Emergency Service said on social media that rescuers found five bodies in the rubble and pulled three people out alive, but one later died in hospital, the Reuters news agency reported.
"Today, from the very morning, the town of Toretsk was under fire," the State Emergency Service said, as quoted by the ukrinform.net website.
"A two-story building sheltering people was destroyed as a shell slammed into it," it added. "During search and rescue operations, the bodies of five dead people were found and retrieved. Three people were rescued from the rubble, one of whom died in hospital."
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that the Russian army "has already used more than three thousand cruise missiles against Ukraine."
He added, as quoted by the ukrinform.net website: "It is impossible to count the number of artillery and other projectiles that were used against our country and our people."
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Source: PAP, ukrinform.net, Reuters