Russian Guided Bombs Strike Central Sloviansk, Injuring Three

Russian military aircraft executed a devastating mid-morning precision strike on the heavily populated central district of Sloviansk on Saturday, June 13, deploying highly destructive guided munitions that tore through residential blocks and civilian infrastructure.

A mid-morning bombardment

The attack occurred at approximately 10:45 a.m. local time, catching residents in the heart of the city during morning hours. Vadym Lyakh, the head of the Sloviansk City Military Administration, confirmed the aerial strike on Facebook.

According to Lyakh, tactical Russian aircraft launched three guided aerial bombs (KABs) directly at the city center. These heavy munitions, equipped with wing kits and satellite guidance systems, inflicted destruction across a multi-block radius.

Three women sustained various blast and shrapnel injuries during the explosions. Emergency medical services deployed immediately to the impact zones, and all three survivors are currently hospitalized and receiving targeted medical treatment.

The shockwaves and fragmentation directly damaged 23 multi-story residential high-rise buildings, blowing out facades and fracturing structural supports.

A local educational institution sustained direct damage, and numerous civilian vehicles parked along the impacted streets were completely incinerated or crushed by falling debris.

Emergency response teams, utility workers, and municipal specialized services deployed to the scene to clear the rubble, secure damaged gas and electrical lines, and assist residents in boarding up shattered windows.

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Broader aerial attrition campaign

The daytime bombing of Sloviansk marks an unyielding continuation of an air campaign launched by Russia. Just 24 hours prior, on Friday, June 12, Russian forces conducted a series of highly destructive raids intentionally aimed at Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure.

In the energy sector, a targeted strike hit a thermal power plant operated by DTEK, the nation’s largest private energy enterprise. The kinetic impact caused structural damage to essential electricity generation and transmission infrastructure, killing one utility worker on duty and leaving a second heavily injured. This followed a separate coordinated drone and artillery blitz that had battered four other DTEK facilities in the Dnipropetrovsk region earlier in the week.

Simultaneously, the air campaign hit critical transit and logistical lines across several regions. A nighttime strike focused on a rail yard operated by Ukrzaliznytsia in Sumy, killing a female railway worker and leaving another employee hospitalized with severe internal bleeding and a fractured pelvis.

In Zaporizhzhia, a Russian loitering munition slammed directly into a commercial logistics operator terminal, triggering a large-scale industrial fire that severely compromised the facility.

The aerial violence extended into the early hours of Saturday morning as a wave of Shahed drones swarmed the southern port city of Mykolaiv, wounding two residents and causing an acute stress reaction in a 10-year-old boy after a drone detonation leveled a neighboring private home.