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The death toll from Russian missile strikes that hit apartment blocks and other buildings in an eastern Ukrainian city has climbed to seven, with 67 injured, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said Tuesday.

The Associated PressRescuers work at the scene of a building badly damaged after missile strikes in Pokrovsk, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, on Tuesday.Two Russian missiles slammed into the downtown area of Pokrovsk, in the eastern Donetsk region that is partially occupied by Russia, on Monday evening, local authorities said.

The missiles, which hit within 40 minutes of each other, damaged nine- and five-storey buildings, houses, a hotel, dining establishments, shops and administrative buildings, Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Moscow of trying to leave nothing but "broken and scorched stones" in Eastern Ukraine.

Residential buildings damaged in missile strike are seen on Tuesday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk. Officials in Pokrovsk said a hotel in the centre of the city suffered a direct hit and several floors are missing. Residents said the Druzhba Hotel was popular with journalists, aid workers and the military. It was one of the few still operating in the eastern Donetsk region, close to the front line.

 

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