Russia bombs Sloviansk’s warming center as the day’s attacks wound four Red Cross workers

On 13 October, a Russian attack on Sloviansk resulted in injuries to four Ukrainian Red Cross workers. The same day, a Russian bomb struck the city's central warming center, one of the state-run facilities providing warmth and phone charging during power outages. The Red Cross condemned the attacks on civilian infrastructure and humanitarian workers.

The warming center located in Lisnyi microdistrict, Sloviansk, was struck at 12:45 by a FAB-250, a 250-kg air-dropped bomb. According to the city military administration head Vadym Liakh, eight people were injured and five apartment blocks were damaged. The bombing of the warming center marked a growing challenge to reaching aid in Sloviansk, where public transport had ceased after a Russian strike on two buses in nearby Kramatorsk killed 30 people on 8 October.

The Ukrainian Red Cross Society reported that the Red Cross team had relocated from Lyman to Sloviansk due to security concerns and continued working there despite the ongoing attacks. Three members of the society's Lyman city branch were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds and burns after a Russian strike on 5 October, while the fourth person suffered a concussion, all being hospitalized.