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Headline: Fatal Attack On Residential Building In Pokrovsk, Ukraine

Caption: **RAW VIDEO** These images and video show rescue and cleanup operations after a five-story residential building in Pokrovsk in Eastern Ukraine was hit by a Russian missile attack on Monday (07August2023). Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko confirmed there had been fatalities. "Seven people were killed. Sixty-seven more were injured, including 29 police officers, seven rescuers, and two children," he shared on Telegram. Speaking about the attack, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said: “The city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. Donbas, from which Russia is trying to leave only broken and scorched stones. Two missile strikes. An ordinary residential building was hit. Unfortunately, there are victims. Rescuers and all necessary services are on the scene. The rescue of people continues. “We have to stop the Russian terror. Everyone who fights for the freedom of Ukraine saves lives. Everyone in the world who helps Ukraine will defeat the terrorists together with us. Russia will be held accountable for everything it has done in this terrible war.”

Keywords: State Emergency Service of Ukraine,zelensky,war in ukraine,pokrovsk,russia,ukraine,donetsk,news,current affairs,war,fighting

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