Ukraine war: Three teens among 11 killed in Kramatorsk attack

Three teenagers were among 11 radical killed successful the Ukrainian metropolis of Kramatorsk aft a Russian rocket deed a fashionable edifice connected Tuesday night.

Included successful the dormant were 14-year-old duplicate sisters Yuliya and Anna Aksenchenko.

At slightest 57 others were injured, including Colombian nationals and a starring Ukrainian writer.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia deserved lone "defeat and a tribunal" for carrying retired the attack.

Emergency services said connected Wednesday that the hunt and rescue efforts are inactive ongoing.

Kramatorsk, an eastbound metropolis successful the Donetsk region, is nether Ukrainian power but it is adjacent to Russian-occupied parts of the country.

"Russian missiles stopped the beating of the hearts of 2 angels," Kramatorsk metropolis council's acquisition section said successful a statement.

Sergio Jaramillo Caro, a erstwhile Colombia bid negotiator, told the BBC helium was sitting successful the edifice erstwhile it came nether onslaught connected Tuesday night, but helium lone suffered insignificant injuries.

However, a starring Ukrainian writer sitting with them - whose individuality is not being disclosed - is successful a captious information and "fighting for her life".

"Please commune for her", Mr Jaramillo Caro said.

Valentina, a Kramatorsk nonmigratory who owns a cafe adjacent the tract spoke of the harm pursuing the attack. "Everything has been blown there, determination is nothing, nary windows, nary doors," she said.

The Kremlin claimed again to lone transportation retired strikes connected subject targets, and Russia's defence ministry claimed it had destroyed a "temporary deployment of [Ukrainian] commanders" successful Kramatorsk, without elaborating further.

An advisor to Ukraine's defence ministry, Yuri Sak, told the BBC that Ukraine's aerial defences are presently "insufficient to screen the afloat territory of Ukraine".

Ukraine continues to inquire its allies to supply them with modern combatant jets to assistance it support itself from Russian strikes.