The blast in the town of Kostiantynivka killed 17 people and wounded at least 32 in one of Russia's deadliest strikes in months, Ukrainian officials said."There was no military target here. This is a peaceful neighbourhood in the city center," Stefan Slovak, who lives in Kostiantynivka, said in a trembling voice.
Images taken by Associated Press reporters showed emergency workers extinguishing fires and tending to the wounded amid the wreckage that included blackened cars. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the strike was deliberate. He has visited the town many times on trips to the front line. Ukraine's minister of internal affairs, Ihor Klymenko reported that emergency workers extinguished the flames that burned an area of 300 square meters . Eight market installations and some cars were destroyed.