MOSCOW
\nUkrainian shelling on the eastern occupied city of Lysychansk killed at least 20 people, Russia said Saturday, with at least 10 others wounded and rescue operations ongoing.
\nMoscow\u2019s occupation forces said Kyiv had targeted a bakery that is popular on weekends.
\nThe attack hit almost two years into Russia\u2019s Ukraine offensive.
\nLysychansk, a city in the Lugansk region that had a population of around 110,000 people before Moscow\u2019s offensive, fell to Russian forces after a brutal battle in the summer of 2022.
\n\u201cIn Lysychansk, employees of the Russian emergency ministry recovered the bodies of 20 people from under the rubble,\u201d the ministry said on Telegram.
\nIt showed a video of rescuers working in the dark, pulling out one dead body from the rubble before finding a wounded woman alive and putting her on a stretcher to take her out of the heavily destroyed building.
\nThe ministry earlier said it had pulled out 10 survivors from under the rubble and said rescue operations will continue into the night.
\nThe Moscow-installed governor of Lugansk, Leonid Pasechnik, said earlier that Kyiv had targeted a bakery that was known to have fresh bread on weekends.
\nRIA Novosti published a video of a heavily damaged building, with emergency workers pulling out an entirely crushed car.
\nThe one-story building had a large sign on it that read \u201cRestaurant Adriatic\u201d and appeared entirely destroyed and covered in rubble.
\nRussia\u2019s foreign ministry claimed western Weapons were used in the attack and said it expected \u201cquick and unconditional condemnation\u201d from international organizations.
\nThe front in eastern Ukraine has barely moved in months but battles continue to be bloody with intensified attacks on both sides this winter.
\nThe attack came as Kyiv said Russia hit it with a fresh barrage of Iranian-made drones, which targeted energy facilities in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, leaving thousands without power.
\nMoscow-installed authorities said one wounded man in \u201cserious condition\u201d was taken to hospital in the city of Lugansk.
\nLysychansk lies some 15 kilometers (nine miles) from Ukrainian-controlled territory.
\nRussia took control of it and its twin city of Severodonetsk in summer 2022 after some of the most brutal battles of its almost two-year offensive.
\nUkraine, meanwhile, said its airforce had downed nine out of 14 Iranian-made drones Russia launched at central and southern regions Saturday.
\nKyiv said most of the drones were directed at energy facilities in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, where thousands have been without power since Russian strikes on Friday.
\nThe outages have mainly affected the main city of Krivyi Rig \u2014 the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
\nRegional head Sergey Lysak said 15,000 people were without electricity in the city after the drone strikes.
\nUkraine\u2019s energy ministry said it was working to restore critical infrastructure.
\nZelensky, meanwhile, praised his country\u2019s security services for hitting Moscow\u2019s forces outside the battlefield \u201cboth at land and at sea.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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