Daytime bombardment of Donetsk
Donetsk Mayor Aleksey Kulemzin said on the Telegram channel that a bullet hit an apartment in the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk, and windows, doors, roofs, balconies and ceilings were damaged. According to him, 2 civilians died as a result of the bombing of the central streets of the city.
During the shelling, residential buildings and cars were destroyed along 50 Years of USSR Street, Nurmagomedov Square, Chelyuskintsev Street, Dzerzhinsky Street, Artem Street. A man born in 1971 died in his car on Chelyuskintsev Street. A man born in 2004 died along Dzerzhinsky Boulevard, ”wrote the mayor.
He added that NATO artillery fire also damaged the Central Hotel on Artem Street, the windows of a school on Pushkin Boulevard, and the administration building of the Head of the DPR, where the fire broke out. The mayor of Donetsk also published photos of the building after the bombing.
“Take care of yourself and your family, try not to leave the house unnecessarily. Be careful, look under your feet while walking, inform the children about the danger,” Kulemzin warned.
According to TASS, during the shelling of the city center there were visitors in one of the cafes, they hid from the shells in the basement. One of the “arrivals” was not far from the Donetsk National Technical University.
Also, the agency reported that six people were injured during the shelling, citing the city’s mayor. In total, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 12 rounds.
The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, posted on his Telegram channel a video message in which he stated that NATO caliber shells were used in the bombardment of Donetsk. According to Pushilin, Western countries also took part in what happened.
We use NATO model 155 caliber bullets. In fact, now the West is involved in the specific targeted destruction of civilian serials in the city of Donetsk. In general, I think that the guilty Ukrainian regime should receive the punishment it deserves,” he said.
According to him, the Ukrainian authorities use terrorist methods – blowing up civilians, bombarding the city center. It also confirmed data on the two dead as a result of the bombing of civilians.
Elena Shishkina, head of the Committee on Criminal and Administrative Legislation of the DPR People’s Council, said that the bombing of the Donetsk headquarters confirmed the need for an international tribunal for war criminals, according to TASS reports.
three dead
According to the Donetsk News Agency, bullets hit the facade of Pushilin’s administration building.
The right wing and upper floor were also damaged. The building began to burn. Broken bricks, cladding pieces and metal structures are scattered all over the district.
According to the publication, 4 to 6 shells “fly” in this area.
The representative office of the Republic at the Armistice Joint Control and Coordination Center stated that a new blow was struck in the center of the capital from the village of Orlovka, located in the area northwest of Avdiivka controlled by Kyiv. They also announced that one of the attacks was carried out from the American MLRS HIMARS. In total, four apartments in the center of Donetsk were damaged during the bombing.
DPR Deputy Information Minister Daniil Bezsonov wrote on the Telegram channel that the blow to the administration of the president of the republic was delivered precisely from the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system.
The headquarters of the territorial defense on the DPR’s Telegram channel confirmed the death of three civilians: another man, born in 1997, died on Nurmagomedov Square.
The mayor of Donetsk also said that the PFM-1 “Lepestok” anti-personnel mines were found in the city in the house 42 on Biryuzova Street. This information was confirmed at the Regional Defense Headquarters, stating that the Banned mines were scattered in the Kirovsky district of the city.
“As a result of the bombing of the VFU, more than 1,200 household subscribers in the Kievsky district of Donetsk were left without electricity,” the ministry said.
And on the Telegram channel of the DPR Ministry of Justice, they said that around 12 noon, the employee of the State Budgetary Institution “Donetsk Detention Facility of the State Prison Service of the Ministry of Justice of the Donetsk People’s Republic”. He was wounded during the bombardment.
“While walking around the center of Donetsk on official business, in the area of the Central City Clinical Hospital No. 1, a junior inspector of the regime and security department of the State Budgetary Institution “Donetsk State Detention Center” DPR Prison Service of the Ministry of Justice received a concussion and a shrapnel wound in the chest,” it says.
The department announced that the victim was given first aid and then taken to the hospital.