At least four civilians were injured in a Russian missile attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk during the night of June 21.
Nighttime Russian Missile Attack On Ukraine's Donetsk Injures Civilians
A Ukrainian policeman accompanies an injured woman, Natasha, to a waiting ambulance following a Russian missile strike. The attack damaged her home in Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region, during the night of June 21.
“The rocket flew right past us, the windows were blown out, a woman was wounded. The (blast) wave did this somehow, it's in the garden,” said Serhiy, whose home was damaged in the explosion. “I saw how it erupted in fire, in front of the neighbors’ windows."
Natasha and Oleksandr, who were injured during the Russian missile strike, wait for news of her daughter in the back of an ambulance. "A rocket came in from over there; who knows? I was standing in the kitchen," Natasha said.
Ukrainian policemen worked through the night to document the damage to homes following the missile attack.
Ukrainian policemen search for rocket fragments in the large crater caused by the Russian missile attack.
Ukrainian policemen look at a fragment of a rocket in a crater. Serhiy Dobriak, head of the Pokrovsk City Military Administration, reported that four people suffered minor injuries, including a 12-year-old child.