Russian attacks on eastern Ukrainian cities kill four, officials say

MOSCOW: Russian attacks on cities in ​Ukraine’s east and southeast killed four people and set ablaze a residence and a shopping center, 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.

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