Nearly 80 Ukrainian rescuers have been killed in responding to Russian missile attacks since full-scale war's outset
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At least 78 rescuers have been killed in Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale war while dealing with missile strikes aftermath, says Oleksandr Khorunzhyi, spokesperson for the State Emergency Service.
At least 280 rescuers have been injured, following a deadly missile strike on Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.
Emergency service workers were injured after rushing to the scene of the first strike. The deputy head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Donetsk region, Andrii Omelchenko, was killed, Ukraine's National Police said.
Russians fire at rescuers, ignoring international conventions. It is worth noting that rescuers are protected by international conventions, as they do not engage in hostilities, but go to rescue people and provide assistance, the statement says.
Two Russian missile strikes on Pokrovsk in Ukraine's Donetsk region on Monday night killed at least seven people, including five civilians.
The bombardment began in the evening when a short-range ballistic missile hit what President Volodymyr Zelensky calls an "ordinary residential building."
All the victims in the attack were either residents, rescue workers, or police, including some officers who had been displaced from their homes in Mariupol.
