The attack was conducted likely using Iskander missiles, around 7:15 p.m. local time, Ukraine’s state Ukrinform news agency reported.
Russia hit a five-storey residential building with two strikes, killing five people and injuring 31 more, as of 9:20 p.m. on Monday, according to Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko.
“During repeated strike, the deputy chief of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service in Donetsk region was killed," the interior minister added on the Telegram social messaging app.
Klymenko said that one child, five rescuers and nineteen police officers were among the injured.
"Our heroes were the first to arrive at the site of the attack to help people," the minister stated, as quoted by Ukrinform.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky posted footage of the aftermath of the Russian attack on Pokrovsk on the social messaging app X, formerly known as Twitter.
Zelensky wrote: "We have to stop the Russian terror. Everyone who fights for the freedom of Ukraine saves lives. Everyone in the world who helps Ukraine will defeat the terrorists together with us. Russia will be held accountable for everything it has done in this terrible war.
Under the procedural leadership of the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, a pre-trial investigation was launched into the violation of the laws and customs of war, officials said.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, launching the largest military campaign in Europe since World War II.
Monday is day 528 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Source: PAP, Ukrinform, Ukrainska Pravda