Police have identified seven people who died as a result of Russian missile attacks on Pokrovsk and the village of Rivne in the Donetsk region.
Police identified seven victims in Pokrovsk and Rivne
The investigators and forensic experts continue to examine body fragments recovered from the sites of the Russian missile attack on 6 January.
The victims were identified by body fragments found at the sites of Russian shell hits, reports said.
A three-year-old girl, her father and mother, aged 32 and 30, and her 59-year-old grandmother were killed in Rivne, according to forensics.
A 34-year-old man and two women, aged 37 and 39, were killed in Pokrovsk.
Measures to identify the victims are currently underway. The police have not yet identified four more victims.
Rocket attack on Pokrovsky district in Donetsk region
Around 15:00 on 6 January, Russian troops fired S-300 missiles at residential buildings in the village of Rivne in the Myrnohrad community and Pokrovsk.
There was also shelling in the Zvirove of the Pokrovsk community. No one was injured or killed.
At least 11 people, including five children, were killed in the Russian strikes.
In the village of Rivne, a missile hit a house where a family was staying: three adults and three children were killed.
A missile hit a private residential area in Pokrovsk. Two houses were destroyed. According to local authorities, five people were killed. They were a family of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Avdiivka.
