Moscow, Feb. 4 -- Twenty bodies were pulled from under the rubble of what used to be a popular bakery in the city of Lysychansk in the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), the Russian Emergencies Ministry told Sputnik.

"The bodies of 20 deceased people have been recovered from under the rubble in Lysychansk after the shelling. Despite a threat of another strike, rescuers continue to remove the rubble and search for people at the risk of their own lives," the ministry's press office said.

Ukraine struck the crowded bakery in the early afternoon on Saturday, collapsing the building and trapping some 40 civilians under the rubble, the LPR military commander's office told Sputnik earlier.

Ten survivors were rushed to a hospital. The search for o...