Russian attacks on eastern Ukrainian cities kill four, officials say

June 16 (Reuters) - Russian ‌attacks on ​cities ​in Ukraine's east and southeast killed four people and set ablaze a residence ‌and a shopping centre, officials and prosecutors ⁠said late on Tuesday.

Prosecutors in the Donetsk region, the ‌focal point of Ukraine's ‌front line, said three people died in two bomb attacks in the city of Sloviansk. ​Five people were injured.

Sloviansk is part of the country's "fortress belt," heavily defended by the ⁠military and seen as key to containing a slow-moving Russian offensive ​in Donetsk.

In the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, national police said a wave ​of dozens of drones killed ‌one person in his car and injured seven others.

Pictures posted online showed ⁠flames inside a building and on a rooftop and at least one facade reduced to rubble.

Regional Governor ⁠Ivan Fedorov said there had been five strikes on ​the city. He said fire broke out in a residence and a shopping centre, and an educational institution ‌sustained damage.

Reuters could not independently verify the reports. Russia and Ukraine deny deliberately ‌targeting civilians in the war that started ⁠with Russia's full-scale invasion ‌of Ukraine in ​2022.

(Reporting by Ron Popeski and Oleksandr Kozhukhar; Editing by Mark Porter and Jamie ‌Freed)

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