A Russian strike on Tuesday killed at least 24 people during the distribution of pension payments in a front-line town of eastern Ukraine threatened by Moscow's push to capture the entire industrial region, officials said Tuesday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted amateur video showing several corpses strewn on the ground, and a burned-out minivan near a playground, images that Agence France-Presse could not independently verify.

"A brutally savage Russian airstrike with an aerial bomb on the rural settlement of Yarova in the Donetsk region. Directly on people. Ordinary civilians. At the very moment when pensions were being disbursed," Zelenskyy wrote.

AFP journalists in eastern Ukraine saw mourners weeping outside a morgue where staff had laid out at least 13 corpses in

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