Russia says toll in Ukraine strike on occupied city rises to 28

MOSCOW – Russia said on Sunday the death toll from a Ukrainian strike on a bakery in the occupied eastern city of Lysychansk climbed to 28 people, including a child.
The strike hit almost two years into Russia’s grinding offensive in Ukraine, where the front has barely moved in months but attacks have intensified this winter. 
Moscow’s occupation forces Saturday said Kyiv struck a building that housed a bakery popular with locals on weekends.
Ukraine has not yet commented on the strike.
Lysychansk is a city in the occupied Lugansk region that fell to Russian forces after one of the most brutal battles during Moscow’s long offensive in summer 2022. 
Before the Russian army entered Ukraine, it had a population of around 110,000 people. 
“Search operations continue on the site of the collapsed bakery… 28 people, including a child, have died,” the Russian emergency situations ministry posted on Telegram.
Occupational authorities in Lugansk said there were 18 men, nine women and one child among the dead.