At least 13 civilians have been reported killed in an airstrike on a bread factory in the Ukrainian town of Makariv, just outside Kyiv, according to the Ukrainian state emergency service.
The latest multiple fatality incident involving civilians occurred on Monday afternoon.
A statement of the Twitter account of Ukraine’s armed forces reads:
“Russian occupiers carried out an airstrike on a bakery in Makariv, Kyiv region.
“As a result of a shell hit the territory of the bakery, [and] 13 people died with five people were rescued from the rubble.
“There were 30 people at the bakery.”
In parallel, a planned third round of peace talks between Ukrainian and Russian negotiators are underway.
By Ana Dumbadze