Death toll from Russian missile attack on Sloviansk rises to nine

The death toll from a Russian missile attack on Sloviansk has climbed to nine after rescuers found the body of a woman.

Veronika Bakhal, the spokeswoman for the Ukrainian State Emergency Service office in the Donetsk region, told this to Suspilne, according to Ukrinform.

"As of 23:50, rescuers recovered the body of a dead woman from under the rubble of an apartment building in Sloviansk. The search for four more people is ongoing," Bakhal said.

Ukrinform reported earlier that Russian forces fired at least seven missiles (likely S-300s) at the city on April 14, six of them hitting the residential area and one hitting the territory of a landscape park.

According to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, 34 apartment blocks, 20 private houses, civil infrastructure objects and 12 cars were damaged in the attack.