Bodies of couple found in rubble of Russian strike in east Ukraine - officials

Bodies of couple found in rubble of Russian strike in east Ukraine - officials

(Reuters) -Emergency crews found the bodies of a married couple on Thursday as they cleared rubble from a Russian strike in the eastern Ukrainian town of Selydove the previous day, taking the total death toll to four, officials said.

Russia fired four S-300 missiles at the town on Wednesday, damaging six apartment buildings and 20 homes, police said.

The two people found on Thursday were a married couple who had moved from another town in the Donetsk region because of the war, the Prosecutor's General Office said.

"A total of four people were killed and three injured," the State Emergency Service said on the Telegram message service.

Images from the site showed about half of an apartment block destroyed by a missile that tore out a gaping hole in the building.

Russia denies targeting civilians but Ukraine has regularly reported that Russian missile and drone strikes have killed and wounded civilians and damaged civilian infrastructure in the full-scale war launched by Russia in February 2022.