Russian missile turns market into fiery, blackened ruin strewn with bodies

Soldiers and rescue workers sift through the wrecked market (Ukrainian Police Press Office/AP)

The Russian missile that hit eastern Ukraine on Wednesday turned an outdoor market into a fiery, blackened ruin where weeping civilians looked for loved ones among the mangled, burned bodies scattered across the ground.

The blast in the town of Kostiantynivka killed 17 people and wounded at least 32 in one of Russia’s deadliest strikes in months, Ukrainian officials said.