Key facts
- Oleksandr Honcharenko, head of the Kramatorsk City Military Administration, said both attacks targeted vehicles of the same municipal services company.
- On November 10 a drone carrying an explosive warhead hit a vehicle of municipal company KATP 052810 as two employees stood near a garbage truck.
- One worker, born in 1987, was killed on November 10 and another was seriously injured and hospitalized, Honcharenko said.
- The November 9 strike at about 3:55 p.m. killed a KATP 052810 worker in his fifties, according to Honcharenko.
- Honcharenko accused Russian forces of deliberately targeting people who maintain essential services in Kramatorsk.
Russian FPV drone attacks killed two municipal workers and seriously injured another in Kramatorsk, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk Oblast, on November 9 and 10, according to Oleksandr Honcharenko, head of the Kramatorsk City Military Administration.
On November 10 at approximately 11:05 a.m. local time, a Russian FPV drone carrying an explosive warhead struck a vehicle belonging to municipal company KATP 052810, Honcharenko said. Two employees were standing near a garbage truck when the attack occurred. One worker, born in 1987, was killed, while another sustained serious injuries and was hospitalized. Honcharenko said medical personnel were working to save the injured employee.
The previous day, at approximately 3:55 p.m., another Russian FPV drone struck a vehicle belonging to the same company, killing a worker in his fifties, according to Honcharenko. He said the attacks targeted vehicles of the same municipal services company on consecutive days.
Honcharenko accused Russian forces of deliberately targeting people responsible for maintaining essential services in the city. "Municipal workers go to work every day, risking their lives," he said, according to local reporting. He accused Russian forces of trying to deprive Kramatorsk residents of water, electricity, heating, gas and other essential services.
Kramatorsk, a major city in Donetsk Oblast, remains under Ukrainian control and has been subjected to repeated Russian attacks throughout the full-scale invasion.