Iran’s missile attacks on Israel killed five Ukrainian nationals, including three children, in the city of Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv, Kyiv said Sunday, Times of Israel reported.
The five were killed Saturday in the “massive” Iranian strikes when a missile hit a residential building in the city, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said.
The victims’ bodies were being identified, and Ukrainian diplomats are in close communication with the Israeli police and other agencies to finish the identification process and arrange the repatriation of the bodies, Ukrainian international broadcaster Ukrinform said.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately share any additional information.
Nine people were killed when a missile slammed into the building. Nearly 200 others were injured, rescuers said.
In a statement that did not specifically mention Ukrainian nationals in particular, Ukraine’s embassy in Tel Aviv said it “mourns the consequences of the Iranian attack on Israel.”
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