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Russia accuses Ukraine of mass murder after missile hit on crowded bakery

Another scene of blood and horror has unfolded in occupied Ukraine.

Another scene of blood and horror has unfolded in occupied Ukraine. Photo: Getty

Russia has accused Ukraine of mounting a deliberate missile strike on a crowded bakery that claimed the lives of at least 15 shoppers and staff.

The attack on reduced the bakery to rubble in the city of Lysychansk, located in the occupied eastern region of Luhansk.

The ministry shared video of emergency workers lifting two bloodied people onto stretchers and carrying them in the darkness out of the ruins of a building on Saturday.

The ministry said previously that its workers rescued 10 people and handed them to doctors.

Reuters could not immediately independently verify any details of the report coming out of an area Russia annexed in 2022. Ukrainian officials have not made any statement on the incident.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said “dozens of civilians” were in the building at the time of the attack and that Western weapons were used.

US-made rocket

The Russian-controlled Luhansk Information Centre said Ukraine shelled the bakery using the US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System.

Earlier, Leonid Pasechnik, put in charge of Ukraine’s Luhansk region by Moscow, said dozens of people may be under the rubble.

Meanwhile Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has hailed the delivery of two air defence weapons systems, saying it was the result of many months of “tireless” work.

He remained tight-lipped on the details in his nightly address, but said they can “shoot down anything.”

-AAP

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