Death toll rises to 45 after Chas Yar shelling

The bodies of 45 dead have already been removed from under the rubble of a house destroyed by a Russian missile attack in Chasov Yar, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavel Kirilenko said..

As of 18:00, 43 deaths were reported.

“Already 45 dead have been pulled out by rescuers from the rubble of a high-rise building in the city of Chasov Yar. 9 people - rescued. The Russians came to our land purposefully to kill us. The war crime at Chasov Yar is yet another sad proof,” he wrote on Telegram..

Kirilenko said, referring to the data of the State Emergency Service, that 80% of the ruins have already been dismantled - about 420 tons of destroyed structures have been cleared.