| 2024 Kostiantynivka supermarket missile attack | |
| Partof: | Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine |
| Location: | Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine |
| Date: | 9 August 2024 |
| Type: | Missile strike |
| Fatalities: | 14 |
| Injuries: | 44 |
| Perps: | Russian Armed Forces |
On 9 August 2024, the Russian Armed Forces conducted a missile attack on the Ekomarket supermarket in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, killing 14 people and injuring 43 others.[1]
Vadym Filashkin, the governor of Donetsk Oblast, at first said that the attack was conducted using artillery,[1] but later stated that a Kh-38 missile was used.[2] Fourteen people, including three children, were killed, while 44 others were injured.[3]
According to Ukrainian interior minister Ihor Klymenko, the attack also hit houses and shops.[1] Filashkin later said that four houses, nine shops, a car wash and 12 cars had been damaged. A freight department of the postal service firm Nova Poshta located inside the supermarket was also damaged, injuring one of its employees.[2]
The attack was followed later in the day by a round of shelling from Smerch multiple launch rocket systems that injured two people and damaged six houses and a gas pipeline.[2]
The head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Andriy Yermak called the attack "another case of Russian terror", while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pledged to hold Russia responsible.[2]