Russian strikes on an eastern region kill 21 people in a day, Ukrainian officials say.

Russia’s assault on Ukraine continued to take a toll on civilians on Tuesday as 21 people were killed in the eastern region of Donetsk, including a group of workers from a coke plant who were gathered at a bus stop after their shift, officials said.

The total number of casualties, which also included 27 injured, was the highest in a day since last month, when a Russian missile struck a train station in the city of Kramatorsk, killing more than 50 people, Pavlo Kyrylenko, the Donetsk region’s Ukrainian military governor, said Tuesday evening.

The strike on the coke plant was in the town of Adiivka, and injured an additional 20 workers badly enough to require treatment at a hospital, the company that owns the plant, Metinvest, said in a statement.

“Another cynical crime of the Russians on our land,” Mr. Kyrylenko wrote on the Telegram app, referring to the attack. Read more

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