Russian strike kills toddler, eight others in Sloviansk

By Agence France-Presse

Apr 16, 2023 12:08 am

SLOVIANSK, Ukraine: Russia shelled a block of apartments in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, killing nine people, authorities said on Saturday, including a 2-year-old boy who was rescued from the rubble but died on his way to the hospital.

Friday's strike on the quiet neighborhood came as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill that will make it easier to mobilize citizens into the army and block them from fleeing the country if drafted.

SAVED FROM SHELLING Emergency workers and servicemen rescue a child from a partially destroyed residential building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk after it was shelled on Friday, April 14, 2023. AFP PHOTO

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