July 2022 Chasiv Yar missile strike

Chasiv Yar has a population of about 12,000 people and is located about southeast of Kramatorsk on the western side of the city of Bakhmut. The strike was alleged, including by Donetsk Oblast governor Pavlo Kyrylenko, to have been performed with "Uragan", a self-propelled 220 mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. As of 10 July, 67 rescue workers of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine were trying to help the victims and more than 20 people were still feared to be trapped under the rubble. Rescue and search operations continued until the morning of 14 July 2022. Rescuers dismantled about 525 tons of destroyed elements of the building. 323 employees of the State Emergency Service and 9 units of equipment were involved. ==Victims==

As of 13 July, 48 dead were found under the rubble of the building, Initially, Ukrainian media reported at least eleven of the victims were soldiers originally from Ternopil Oblast. Subsequently, other sources reported at least 37 military victims in the strike, the majority of them from Ternopil Oblast. The final military death toll was put at 38. == Reactions==

Andriy Yermak, the chief of staff to Ukraine's president, said that the strike was "another terrorist attack" and that Russia should be designated a "state sponsor of terrorism" as a result. Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov stated that Russia had killed "over 300 nationalists" in an attack on Chasiv Yar, but did not specify whether or not they were referring to the July airstrike or an earlier attack. ==References==