Chasiv Yar: death toll rises to 35

IRYNA BALACHUK – TUESDAY, 12 JULY 2022, 08:51

As of the 11:00 on 12 July, 35 people were found dead under the rubble of the five-storey residential building in Chasiv Yar which had suffered a Russian attack on 9 July. Nine injured civilians were rescued from under the rubble.

Source: Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram; State Emergency Service of Ukraine on Facebook

Quote from the State Emergency Service: "As of 11:00, the personnel of the Main Directorate discovered and removed the bodies of 35 people, including one child (a boy aged about nine), from under the rubble of a 5-storey residential building destroyed by shelling in the town of Chasiv Yar. Nine people have been rescued from under the rubble."

Details: The head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration said that State Emergency Service rescue workers had cleared away around 70% of debris as of 06:30 on 12 July.

The State Emergency Service said that by 11:00, more than 320 tonnes of the building debris had been cleared and dismantled, and the work is ongoing.

Kyrylenko added that one civilian was killed in Mariinka on 11 July. Another two civilians in Donetsk Oblast sustained injuries.

Overall, at least 602 civilians have been killed and 1,552 have been injured in Donetsk Oblast since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.

Kyrylenko stressed that it remains impossible to determine the exact number of casualties and fatalities in Mariupol and Volnovakha.

Earlier:

• Russia used Iskander missiles in an attack on Chasiv Yar on the evening of 9 July, hitting a five-storey residential building. The local authorities reported at the time that more than 30 people might be trapped under the rubble.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence claimed that "more than 300 nationalists" were killed in the missile strike on Chasiv Yar.