Earlier in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Ukraine attacked residential areas of Lugansk with five US-made ATACMS missiles, adding that four missiles were shot down but the last one hit two apartment buildings.
"According to the latest information, as a result of a missile strike on Lugansk, 50 people were injured, and four of them were killed," Pashchenko said in a message, posted by the LPR government’s Telegram channel.
10 people are in serious condition after the attack, the minister added.