At least 20 killed in strikes on Russian-occupied Lysychansk

Kiev [Ukraine], February 5: At least 20 people have been killed and 10 injured in the shelling of the eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, which is occupied by Russian troops, local authorities said on Saturday.
"The Ukrainian forces shelled a bakery in Lysychansk, civilians are among the rubble," wrote Leonid Pasechnik, the head of pro-Russian separatists forces in the Luhansk region, on his Telegram channel.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman referred to "terrorist acts by Ukrainian neo-Nazis." Kiev knew that there were many people in the bakery at the time and had deliberately chosen this target, Zakharova said.
She called for international condemnation of the attack, especially in the West, as Lysychansk had been attacked with Western weapons systems.
It was not possible to independently verify the conflicting reports on the number of casualties. Ukraine has not yet commented on the attack.
Before the war, Lysychansk was a large city of about 100,000 residents. It was taken by Russian troops in the summer of 2022 after heavy fighting and is heavily affected by the war which began almost two years ago. Lysychansk is about 10 kilometres from the front line.
Earlier Saturday, officials said that Russia and Ukraine damaged each other's infrastructure during night-time drone and missile attacks "A fire broke out at the Volgograd oil refinery after a drone was shot down," the governor of the Russian region, Andrey Bocharov, said in a post on Telegram. He said the fire was swiftly contained and that there had not been any deaths or injuries.
Source: Qatar Tribune