wo ladies have died after a Russian missile struck a village faculty in Ukraine’s japanese Donetsk area on Friday, Ukrainian police have mentioned.

A 56-year-old major faculty trainer and a chief accountant, 44, died within the strike on a faculty within the village of Serhiivka.

Ukraine’s nationwide police mentioned {that a} additional six folks have been injured within the assault, which investigators consider was brought on by an Iskander missile.

Twelve staff have been the constructing's solely occupants, the prosecutor's workplace mentioned. Ukrainian faculties weren't in session for college kids on Friday.

“Russian troops, in a direct hit, destroyed a school where civilians were located,” Ukraine's nationwide police mentioned in a press release.

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Four males, aged 54 to 69, and two ladies aged 24 and 34 have been injured and brought to hospital, in response to the Donetsk area prosecutor’s workplace.

A video shared by police confirmed a immobile, bloodied particular person being lifted into an ambulance, and a girl being extracted from in depth ruins.

Groups of males, together with civilians and emergency staff, have been persevering with to comb the ruins for survivors on Friday.

It got here hours after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered prime army commanders to strengthen Ukraine's northern army sector following the arrival of Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in Belarus.

Prigozhin, the top of the Wagner forces, flew from Russia into exile in Belarus on Tuesday below a deal negotiated by President Alexander Lukashenko that ended his “mutiny” in Russia on Saturday.

Reports have urged that Wagner might arrange a brand new base at a vacant army facility close to the city of Asipovichi, about 90 km from the Belarusian capital, Minsk.

Separately, Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar on Friday mentioned that Ukrainian troops have been persevering with to advance in all instructions of their counteroffensive.

“If we talk about the entire frontline, both east and south, we have seized the strategic initiative and are advancing in all directions,” she instructed Ukrainian tv.

Ms Maliar mentioned Ukrainian troops have been shifting “confidently” on the flanks across the devastated japanese metropolis of Bakhmut, which is held by Russian forces, and the primary combating was happening across the metropolis.

In the south, Kyiv's forces have been shifting with blended success and primarily levelling the frontline, she mentioned.

“We are moving with varying success, sometimes there are days when it is more than a kilometre, sometimes less than a kilometre, sometimes up to 2 kilometres,” she mentioned.