Five killed at aid centre in town’s ‘invinciblity point’

A RUSSIAN strike on an “invincibility point” that provides humanitarian support to people in eastern Ukraine killed five people, it emerged yesterday.

Images released by emergency personnel showed a one-storey building with its roof caved in and debris spread around it. The facility in the Donetsk city of Kostiantynivka was one of many created by the Ukrainian authorities to provide access to electricity, heating, water and other basic services.

The victims included “three displaced women from Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar and Opytne” – nearby towns at the centre of the conflict.

The industrial city of Kostyantynivka, about 15 miles west of Bakhmut, has endured the longest and bloodiest battle of the war.

Two civilians were also killed and nine wounded in an overnight attack on the Sumy province town of Bilopillia in the north east of the country.

In southern Ukraine, Russian shelling killed one person in the city of Kherson and killed another person and wounded four others in the nearby town of Bilozerka.