At least 10 killed in shelling in Russian-occupied Ukraine: official

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KYIV, Ukraine — A Kremlin-appointed local official on Saturday blamed Ukraine for a shooting that killed 10 people the previous day in a town in the Russian-occupied southern Zaporozhye region.

Tokmak municipal administration reported on Telegram that three apartment buildings were hit by gunfire on Friday evening. According to Yevgeny Balitskyi, head of the region installed by the Kremlin, five people were pulled out alive from under the rubble and 13 people were hospitalized.

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Russian emergency services continued to search for civilians trapped under the rubble of their homes in southern Ukraine on Saturday in Tokmak, which Moscow illegally annexed from Kyiv after the 2022 war against Ukraine.

A Ukrainian missile struck a machinery factory in eastern Ukraine's Russian-occupied Lugansk, injuring three civilians, Vladimir Rogov, a Moscow official who helps run the Russian government's policy on illegally annexed territories, wrote on Telegram on Saturday.

Leonid Pasechnik, the Kremlin-appointed official who announced the strike, said on Telegram that Russian-appointed authorities in Luhansk planned to restart the plant “soon,” but did not say what would be produced there.

Rogov and Pasechnik said the missile strike also damaged residential buildings, but did not immediately provide evidence to support their claims.

In a video posted on Rogov's Telegram account, a column of smoke behind a low-rise building rises into the sky, seemingly harmless.

Ukrainian officials did not immediately acknowledge or comment on either attack.

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Meanwhile, in the Chernihiv region in the north of Ukraine, Russian forces fired on a food delivery vehicle on Saturday and killed its civilian driver, the governor of the region, Vyacheslav Chaus, reported.

According to officials, two civilians were killed in Russian airstrikes on Friday and overnight. Both deaths occurred in eastern Donetsk region, according to local governor Vadim Filashkin's Telegram posts.

One man was buried under rubble and another was wounded by Russian gunfire overnight in the northeastern Kharkiv region, local governor Ole Synaehubov and Ukraine's emergency services said. Both were hospitalized, according to a Telegram update from the state emergency service.

Local authorities in Ukraine reported that more than a dozen civilians were wounded by Russian shelling in the north, south and east of the country on Friday and overnight.

It was not immediately possible to verify the statements of either Balitsky or the Ukrainian authorities.

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