<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">At least three people were killed Wednesday and 20 wounded when a Russian rocket struck a residential building in the centre of the eastern city of Kramatorsk, Ukrainian officials said.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">AFP saw two bodies at the scene as rescue workers cleared the rubble.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Two hours ago, the Russian occupiers hit a residential building in the centre of the city with a rocket and completely destroyed it," regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on the Telegram messaging app.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The regional police said on their official website that it was "preliminarily known that there are three dead civilians and 20 wounded".</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Peaceful people died and are under the rubble," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote after the rocket strike.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"This is the daily reality of life in our country."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kramatorsk is located in the eastern industrial region of Donetsk, parts of which, including its largest city, have been controlled by Kremlin-backed separatists since 2014.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moscow is seeking to capture the entire region after declaring it part of Russia last year. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>