Eight people were killed and 13 injured on Saturday in Lyman in eastern Ukraine after the town came under Russian rocket fire, Ukraine’s interior ministry said.
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“So far we know about 8 dead… The number of injured has increased to 13 people,” the ministry said on social media.

A residential building, an annexe to a printing house and three cars were set on fire in the attack, it said.

Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the Donetsk region where Lyman is located, said “at around 10:00 am, the Russians struck the town with multiple rocket launchers”.

Lyman, a major rail hub, was initially captured by Russian forces but then re-taken by Ukraine’s army in October.

Ukraine has reported Russian offensive operations in the area this week.

In the Russian-controlled town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine, an emergency services official was quoted by TASS news agency as saying two civilians were killed by Ukrainian fire overnight.
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