On September 6, 2023, in the Russo-Ukrainian War, Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Oblast came under Russian missile attack. Bodies of Ukrainian civilians lay dead in front of an outdoor market; 17 people were killed and 32 wounded.

   In the Russo-Ukrainian War on September 6, 2023, the Ukrainian city center of Kostiantynivka came under missile attack by Russian forces. After the shelling, the bodies of Ukrainian civilians lay in front of a burning marketplace. In Kostiantynivka, in eastern Ukraine, Russian shelling killed about 17 people and wounded at least 32 others. The New York Times later reported on September 18 that evidence strongly suggested that the devastating attack in Kostiantynivka was the result of a misfire by a Ukrainian air defense missile fired by a Buk launch system.

　The Russian missiles tore through an outdoor market in eastern Ukraine, killing about 17 people and wounding about 32 others. In the city of Kostiantynivka, near the front line in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, a missile strike turned an outdoor market into a charred ruin, littered with corpses. The outdoor market is a civilian settlement, with no military facilities, and an arbitrary and indiscriminate attack broke out.

　There was the wreckage of the Kostiantynivka market, near a car engulfed in flames, and charred corpses lay in the street with their clothes still on. Behind a stall selling fresh parsley, rescuers found the body of a woman in plain clothes, covered in blood. Paramedics gave first aid to a casualty and transported her to an ambulance at an outdoor market after Russian missile shelling received by the Ukrainian city center of Kostiantynivka. Firefighters extinguished the flames, paramedics applied tourniquets, and placed the casualties on stretchers and blankets in the emergency vehicle. Some bodies were covered with posters and tarps. There were bodies covered on the ground, paramedics extinguishing a fire at an outdoor market stall, and a charred car near an outdoor market. Emergency crews extinguished fires in about 30 papillions of outdoor market stalls.

Warning: A dead body lies on the ground in front of a burning market after a Russian shelling attack in the city center of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. More than a dozen people were killed and dozens more were wounded Wednesday when Russian shelling struck a market in the city in eastern Ukraine, officials said. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)