On the afternoon of July 16, Russian troops fired on Sloviansk in the Donetsk region using a multiple rocket launcher system; a woman was wounded.

According to Ukrinform, Vadym Liakh, head of the Sloviansk City Military Administration, reported this on Facebook.

“On Thursday, July 16, Sloviansk came under the following enemy shelling,” Liakh noted.

He stated that “at noon, a salvo from a Smerch MLRS struck a store in a residential area.”

A woman was injured and hospitalized.