Russian Guided Bombs Hit Kramatorsk: One Dead, Three Children Hurt

Russian forces dropped three FAB-250 guided bombs on a residential area of Kramatorsk in Donetsk region on Friday, 23 October, killing one person and wounding six civilians, three of them children, according to the regional prosecutor's office.

The prosecutors said the bombs, fitted with universal gliding and correction modules (UMPK), were dropped at 15:44 and that the target was a residential block.

Who was wounded in Kramatorsk

Besides the person killed, six civilians suffered injuries of varying severity: two women aged 45 and 54, a 47-year-old man, and three children — girls aged 7 and 10 and their brother, who is 1 year and 10 months old.

The prosecutors listed the victims' diagnoses as blast and shrapnel wounds, a closed craniocerebral injury and concussion. They added that 27 residential buildings were damaged around the point of impact.

Part of a wider pattern in Donetsk region

Earlier on Friday, Russian shelling wounded seven civilians across Donetsk region. As we reported, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk were among the towns hit that day. Three days before, as we wrote earlier, Russian attacks on Kramatorsk had killed four people, including heating plant workers.

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