Russian Missile Hits Ukrainian Supermarket, 10 Dead

A Russian missile strike hit a supermarket in the Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka in the frontline Donetsk region, killing at least ten people and injuring 35 others, Ukrainian officials said.

The strike caused a fire that had been put out, the interior minister said. Heavy black smoke clouds rising from the destroyed building could be seen in the images and videos posted by officials.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Ukraine's army chief had briefed him on its military's "defensive actions" that were taking place in areas used by Russia to launch airstrikes against Ukraine.

Zelenskiy did not specifically mention Russia's Kursk region, the location of a shock cross-border incursion by Ukrainian forces in recent days, but Russian troops regularly conduct air attacks on Ukraine from the area.

"Russian terrorists hit an ordinary supermarket and a post office. There are people under the rubble," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

Emergency services continued working out the rubble looking for survivors, he added.

Regional Governor Vadym Filashkin initially said Russia used artillery but later said the attack came from an X-38 air-to-surface missile.

Nova Poshta, Ukraine's largest private postal company, said its cargo office in the supermarket was damaged in the strike.

Residential houses, shops and more than a dozen cars were also damaged in the attack, according to the interior minister's post on Telegram.

Kostiantynivka lies just about 13 kilometers from the active combat line in Ukraine's east. Kyiv-held parts of the Donetsk region regularly come under Russian shelling and air strikes.

The region is one of the hottest areas of fighting as Russia targets areas in the direction of the strategic eastern logistics hub of Pokrovsk.

Elsewhere, Russia has accused Ukraine this week of launching a cross-border assault in Russia's Kursk region. The Kyiv military has not commented on that operation yet.