Russian airstrike on Sloviansk neighborhood injures five, including children

The injured children are 8 and 13 years old.

The strike damaged six apartment buildings, a hotel, a shop, and multiple vehicles, setting seven cars and the hotel’s roof on fire before first responders extinguished the blaze.

In separate attacks throughout the day, Russian artillery shelling also ignited fires on the second floor of a high-rise building and inside a private home. First responders successfully extinguished all the blazes.

Russian forces previously launched FAB-250 aerial bombs on a residential neighborhood in Sloviansk overnight on October 17, damaging eight apartment buildings and partially destroying two of them. The attack killed seven people and injured 12 others.