Paramedics carry the body of a man on a stretcher after he was killed by a Russian military rocket attack at a food market in the center of the Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka (Kostiantynivka) on September 6, 2023. Russian missiles tore through an outdoor market in eastern Ukraine, killing about 17 civilian Ukrainians and wounding about 33 others. Kostiantynivka is close to the front lines around Bakhmut, a heavily contested area and frequently crowded with Ukrainian military personnel.
Russian missiles struck Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, turning the outdoor market into a searing, charred ruin littered with corpses. There was the wreckage of the market, and near a car engulfed in flames, charred corpses burned in the street, clothes and all. Bodies lay in front of the burning market. Behind a stall selling fresh parsley, rescuers found a woman in plain clothes covered in blood. Paramedics examined the pulse and performed an autopsy on a woman killed in a Russian rocket attack on a food market in Konstantinovka. As firefighters tried to extinguish the flames, paramedics donned tourniquets and rushed to get the casualty into an emergency vehicle using stretchers and blankets. Posters and tarps were used to cover the dead. Residents who watched shed tears and comforted each other.
A large explosion in the middle of a busy thoroughfare shattered glass in a nearby building as pedestrians ran for cover. As firefighters responded on the scene, there was a raging fire and thick black smoke billowing from charred cars and buildings. The explosion left blood spatter on the floor, burning cars, destroyed buildings, and paramedics transporting dead bodies. According to Ukrainian prosecutors, about 30 pavilions, 20 stores, administrative buildings, apartments, and power lines were damaged. Shortly after Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Kiev with more than $1 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, Russian forces launched a missile attack.
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