Donetsk Mayor Alexey Kulemzin said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) were launched “according to a special model.” He announced this on air First Channel.
He explained that Ukrainian troops were using NATO 155 mm shells to kill as many civilians as possible. Among other things, they launched projectiles that exploded in the air.
“Obviously the goal was the death of innocent civilians,” the mayor said.
He added that the pattern of shelling managed to kill more people, including rescuers and ambulance workers.
Kulemzin also stated that there were never military facilities in the area where the artillery shells of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fell, so Ukrainian troops deliberately targeted civilians.
21 January Armed Forces of Ukraine applied A combined attack from 152 mm and 155 mm caliber guns from the Kurakhovsky and Krasnogorovsky directions on the Mercury market in Donetsk.
In the fall of 2023, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya during the UN Security Council meeting statedHe said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have opened fire on the DPR more than 25 thousand times since February 2022, and about 145 thousand shells fell on the territory of the republic.
Previously Bastrykin instructed Identify those responsible for bombing the market in Donetsk.