INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Ukrainian strike on a bakery in the occupied eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk over the weekend killed three officials,
Russian-installed representatives said Monday.The Kremlin has blasted the attack that killed at least 28 people as a "monstrous terrorist
act."On Monday, authorities in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region said a local government minister and two deputies were among those
killed."During the brutal shelling of the bakery in Lysychansk, the emergency situations minister of the Luhansk People's Republic, Colonel
Alexey Poteleshchenko, was killed," the Moscow-appointed head of the region Leonid Pasechnik said in a post on the Telegram messaging
ago.Poteleshchenko fought in militia units for pro-Russian separatists against Ukraine before being appointed to the government post,
have intensified attacks against each other in recent months, though the front line has barely moved.The Kremlin said the latest incident
justified its ongoing war against Ukraine."Continued strikes on civilian infrastructure, in this case the bakery, are monstrous terrorist
The number of victims speaks to the monstrousness of this terrorist act," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said."To stop more of them, the
special military operation is continuing," Peskov said, using Moscow's preferred term for the invasion of Ukraine.Kremlin-backed officials
in occupied Ukraine said 18 men, nine women and one child died when Ukrainian forces struck the building on Saturday.
