June 2.
At least seven people are reported killed after an explosion in Lugansk administration building.
The blast came as Kiev deployed fighter jets to the city in eastern Ukraine. This and heavy gunfire on the ground caused panic among civilians.
The death toll was first reported by RIA Novosti; later it was confirmed by local self-defense forces, who said the blast was caused by the army's fighter jets striking the building.
“Ukraine’s air force struck Lugansk downtown at 16.00 pm. Military aircraft made a targeted strike, deploying cluster bombs.
The administration building is partially destroyed,” the government of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR) said.
Many wounded were trapped inside the administration headquarters, which caught on fire. About six ambulance vehicles have arrived at the site. The death toll may rise.
The LNR’s health minister, Natalia Arkhipova, was among those killed in the attack, according to the self-proclaimed republic’s premier, Vasiliy Nikitin. During the air-strike she was talking to another woman on the administration building’s steps.
Large blood stains inside the HQ could be seen on live-streaming video from the area, with pieces of glass and stones also visible on the floor.
The camera operator was choking with smoke. On the outside, many windows are shattered, shell fragments covering the nearby area and dark plumes of smoke are coming from the fourth floor.
Kiev, however, denied attacking the HQ, insisting that its forces are not firing on residential areas in the cities, and do not use air power in those areas, reports the Ukrainian news agency UNN.
The Ukrainian authorities sent its air force to Lugansk to support border guard units stationed in the area, said Vladislav Seleznyov, the spokesman for the military operation against the pro-autonomy protesters in eastern Ukraine. The fighter jets eliminated two opposition mortar detachments, he told a media briefing.
In his comment to UNN, Seleznyoov also added that “according to preliminary experts’ conclusions," the explosion resulted from an attempt to launch some anti-aircraft position.
”Fighter jets could become vulnerable while making a turns, he said. “Perhaps, terrorists were trying to shoot them down from some air defense system, but the explosion occurred inside the building,” he said.
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