Attacks in Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions leave 28 dead : Officials

Rescuers work at the site of a missile attack in Lugansk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on Friday, amid ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Pic/AFP

Russia-installed officials in the partially occupied Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Luhansk said Ukrainian attacks left at least 28 people dead as Russia and Ukraine continued to exchange drone attacks overnight into Saturday. A Ukrainian attack on Friday on the small town of Sadove in Ukraine's partially occupied Kherson region killed 22 and wounded 15 people, Moscow-backed governor Vladimir Saldo said.

Russian state news agency Tass cited Saldo as saying that Ukrainian forces first struck the town with a French-made guided bomb, then attacked again with a US-supplied HIMARS missile. He said Ukrainian forces had "deliberately made a repeat strike to create greater numbers of casualties" when "residents of nearby houses ran out to help the injured".

Further east, Leonid Pasechnik, the Russia-installed governor in Ukraine's partially occupied Luhansk region, said Saturday that two more bodies had been pulled from the rubble following Friday's Ukrainian missile attack on the regional capital, also called Luhansk. Russian state news agency Interfax cited regional authorities as saying this brought the death toll to six.Pasechnik also said 60 people were wounded in the attack.

Pasechnik declared Saturday a day of mourning in the region, with public events cancelled. Ukraine did not comment on either assault. Meanwhile, drone attacks between Russia and Ukraine persisted.

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