At least eight people were killed and 23 wounded by Ukrainian shelling in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region of Ukraine, Russia’s state TASS news agency said on Friday, citing an unnamed source in emergency services.
Taas said the shelling destroyed a building in the village of Lantrativka and buried some people under rubble.
Russian-backed officials from Luhansk’s representation at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination – a ceasefire monitoring body set up to help manage the conflict between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces since 2014 – said Ukraine had killed three American soldiers in Lantrativka. The manufactured HIMARS rocket fired at 04:10 a.m. local time Friday.