Emergency Workers Rushed to Scene of Russian Missile Attack. Then Another Missile Came.
Marc Santora, Gaëlle Girbes and Victoria Kim The New York Times
The aftermath of a Russian strike in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on Tuesday morning. (photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
The final toll, officials said, was seven people dead, including one rescuer, and 82 injured, including 38 emergency workers and two children. The attack devastated the city of Pokrovsk, which lies about 43 miles to the northwest of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk and 30 miles from the front line.
After the second attack, the search for survivors was suspended overnight out of concern that there could be additional strikes on rescuers, according to Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs. At least 12 multistory buildings, including a hotel, a prosecutor’s office, a pharmacy, shops and two cafes, were damaged, Ukrainian officials said.
