Emergency services say 24 people, including one child, 'may still be under the rubble'. 9News
hit an apartment bloc in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities saying, adding that many others may still be trapped under the rubble.
The State Emergency Service said that the bodies of 15 people had been found in the rubble so far and that the search and rescue works continued.A sofa chair is seen in what is left standing in the aftermath of a Russian rocket that hit an apartment residential block. Chasiv Yar and other towns in Donetsk have been under heavy fire in recent days as Russian forces try to grind down Ukrainian resistance in the area and move further west.
The area has become the key centrepiece of Russian President Vladimir Putin's military ambition in Ukraine after his troops failed to take over Kyiv earlier this year.Russian troops have already taken over almost all of the Luhansk region, the head of Luhansk's region military administration Serhiy Hayday said in a Telegram post on Saturday, adding that some 300,000 people from the area have been forced to flee their homes.