Sept. 9 (UPI) -- At least two dozen people in Ukraine on Tuesday morning were killed in a Russian airstrike, with nearly as many injured at a postal building.
According to local authorities, at least 24 people are dead and 19 others injured in the village of Yarova in the Donetsk Oblast region after Russian forces struck the area around 11 a.m. local time at Ukrposhta, Ukraine's national post service, as local workers and residents stood in line to receive a pension payout.
"Such Russian strikes must not be left without an appropriate response from the world," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky posted on social media.
Two injured were hospitalized but the full extent of damage was not immediately clear.
Regional Governor Vadim Filashkin called Russia's air attack "pure terrorism" and said it was "not a military operation," he wrote on Telegram.
