The attack targeted a busy market in the capital of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic, the regional leader said
At least 13 people have been killed and ten others wounded in a shelling of Donetsk by the Ukrainian forces, Denis Pushilin, leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic, has said.
Describing the attack as “horrendous,” Pushilin wrote on his Telegram channel that it hit a market in the Kirovsky District, in the south-western part of the city, during its busiest hour.
First responders and operatives are working at the site, clarifying the data on the dead and wounded in the attack, and searching for fragments of munitions used in the bombardment, he added.
In Kuibyshevsky District in the north-west of the city, a Ukrainian drone also dropped a grenade on repair workers fixing a heating system. One person was injured and an excavator destroyed in that attack, according to the mayor of Donetsk Aleksey Kulemzin.
The shelling marks “another dark day in the history of the city,” he said in a post on Telegram. For the failures they suffered on the battlefield, Ukrainian forces have “wickedly” decided to take revenge on the civilians of Donetsk, the mayor added.
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