Russian Guided Bombs Hit Sloviansk, Two Wounded

Russian forces struck Sloviansk in Ukraine's Donetsk region with high-explosive aerial bombs on the evening of Saturday, 24 October, wounding two people and causing destruction, local officials said.

Vadym Liakh, head of the Sloviansk city military administration, said that around 5 p.m. the enemy carried out airstrikes on the city with FAB-250 and FAB-500 bombs.

Casualties and damage

According to Liakh, two people are known to have been wounded, and both received medical assistance. Several multi-storey buildings in different parts of the city were damaged or destroyed. Two educational institutions, an administrative building, an infrastructure facility, a café and cars were also hit.

Earlier on Saturday, a Russian drone strike on Synelnykove in the neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk region killed three people and wounded 12.

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