On July 16, at about 2:30 pm, the Russian occupation forces carried out a rocket attack on the city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.. As a result of the explosions, there are wounded and dead among civilians, Mayor Ruslan Trebushkin said on Telegram.

“Rocket strikes on the Pokrovskaya community continue. Houses damaged, car wrecked. There are casualties, there are wounded among the civilian population,” the mayor said..

According to Trebushkin, due to the enemy attack, some Ukrainian civilians were left homeless. He explained that many houses were damaged by the blow: “windows, doors were knocked out, everything was squeezed inside the houses, out”.

The Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Donetsk region later clarified that the occupiers got into the former building of the Palace of Culture and caused the fire of two trucks. It was also reported that the invaders damaged 16 private houses..

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As of 16:00 rescuers extinguished trucks. Information about the victims and injured is still being clarified..

In addition, as Trebushkin said, a special commission is working at the scene of the incident, establishing the amount of damage from the Russian strike..

The mayor urged people to help resettle those residents whose houses were destroyed or damaged.

At 20:00, the National Police of Donetsk Region announced that Russian troops attacked the private sector of Pokrovsk with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles. According to the press service, at least 27 houses were damaged..

On the evening of July 16, the Russian invaders also fired rockets at the territory of the Chyhyryn community of the Cherkasy region.. Two explosions were heard in one of the settlements.