THE Russia reported today, Monday, that 23 people had been killed from a Ukrainian rocket in the city of Donetsk controlled by pro-Russian separatists, accusing it Kyiv for “war crime”. According to the latest report released by Moscow, “at least 23 civilians (…) including children were killed and at least 18 people were injured».
Earlier, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov announced the deaths of “20 civilians”, adding that “28 people, including children, were seriously injured and are being treated”, according to telegrams from AFP and Reuters.
The Ukrainian army fired a rocket “Tochka-U“Against a residential area in Donetsk, a large industrial city and a self-proclaimed ‘capital’ of the homonymous pro-Russian separatist territory,” Konashenkov said.
He added that “the use of such weapons against a city where there is no shooting range of the armed forces (…) is a war crime».
Asked about reports of Ukrainian attack in Donetsk, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov he said it was a tragedy.
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“It’s definitely a Russian missile,” the Ukrainians said
The Ukrainian army, for its part, has made it clear that it has fired a missile at the city. «This is definitely a Russian missile or some other type of ammunition“Ukrainian army spokesman Leonid Matyukin told a news conference.
Video taken by a Reuters photographer in downtown Donetsk shows damaged and burned vehicles. Enough corpses and one missile fragment with smoke emerging from it were visible.
In her Telegram account, the militia defense of Donetsk published photos showing bloodied corpses lying on the street in the middle of ruins, as well as a small bus with broken windows.
The leader of the Donetsk separatists, the Dennis Pusilinsaid on Russian television that it was a missile containing cluster bombs, which – as the French agency points out – are banned in most countries, but not in Russia and Ukraine.
«If (the rocket) had not been shot down, there would have been even more casualties“, Assessed Pusilin. According to him, the victims were waiting at a bus stop and others waiting to buy a ticket.
Russian television broadcast images of an orange bus that had been severely damaged, as well as several vehicles that had been engulfed in flames. No accounts were able to be verified by independent source neither from the French Agency nor from Reuters, broadcasts the APE BPE, citing the two news agencies.
Donetsk separatists, militarily backed by Moscow, have been at war with Kyiv since 2014 and their troops are currently taking part in the military offensive in Ukraine. Donetsk city center has largely escaped the fighting, especially since its inception war in Ukraineon February 24.
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Source: News Beast
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