MOSCOW: A Ukrainian attack on the eastern occupied city of Lysychansk killed at least 15 people and wounded 10 others, Moscow-installed authorities said Saturday, adding that there were likely more dead in the rubble underneath a bakery that was struck.

Lysychansk, in the Lugansk region, fell to Russian forces after a brutal battle six months into Moscow`s offensive in 2022.

Russia`s forces said that Ukraine had struck a building housing a popular bakery and that it believed more victims were buried in the rubble.

`According to current data as a result of the shelling of a bakery in Lysychansk 15 people died and 10 were wounded with varying degrees of severity,` the Russian-installed health minister of the Lugansk region, Natalia Pashchenko, said on Telegram.

`Rescuers have also found, preliminarily, around 10 people under the rubble. There are dead among them, too, she added.

The Moscow-installed governor of Lugansk, Leonid Pasechnik, said Kyiv had targeted a bakery that was known to have fresh bread on weekends.

RIA Novosti published a video of a heavily damaged building, with emergency workers pulling out an entirely crushed car.AFP