Ukraine on Friday blamed Russia for shelling a convoy of civilian cars in the southern Zaporizhzhia region that killed at least 23 on the front line.
Zaporizhzhia regional governor Oleksandr Starukh said the strikes had also injured 28 people, "all civilians, local people," reports NDTV.
A pro-Kremlin official in Russian-occupied region of Zaporizhzhia blamed Kyiv and denied the Russian army was behind the attack.
"The regime in Kyiv is trying to portray what happened as shelling by Russian troops, resorting to a heinous provocation," Vladimir Rogov said on social media, accusing Ukrainian troops of carrying out a "terrorist act".
The Zaporizhzhia governor Starukh said Russian forces "launched a rocket attack on a civilian humanitarian convoy on the way out of the regional centre".
"People were standing in line to leave for the temporarily occupied territory, to pick up their relatives and to take away aid," he said on social media.
Starukh also posted a photograph, showing two rows of crumpled cars and several corpses lying nearby after the attack.
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