A school and community centre were destroyed in the shelling.
Twenty-one persons were killed and 25 were injured after Russian forces shelled Merefa town near Kharkiv city in east Ukraine on Thursday, The Kyiv Independent reported. Out of the injured persons, ten are in a critical condition, the prosecutor’s office in the Kharkiv Oblast said. A school and community centre were destroyed in the shelling, according to The Kyiv Independent. Veniamin Sitov, the mayor of Merefa, said that the attack took place just before dawn, The Associated Press reported.
