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| Death toll in the Donetsk artillery attack rises to 25 |
| 2024-01-22 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The number of victims of the shelling of Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) has increased to 25. This was reported by the representative office of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine. “As a result of the barbaric shelling of a busy market in the densely populated Tekstilshchik microdistrict, as of 18:00, there are confirmed deaths of 25 civilians. 25 civilians were injured of varying degrees of severity, including two teenagers born in 2007,” the representative office said in a statement on its Telegram channel. As Regnum reported, on the morning of January 21, the Kirovsky district of Donetsk came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The main blow fell on the Mercury market in the Tekstilshchik microdistrict. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that, according to data as of 14:30 Moscow time, the death toll had increased to 25 people. The head of the region clarified that the city was hit by a combined attack from 152 mm and 155 mm caliber artillery from the Kurakhovsky and Krasnogorovsky directions. https://regnum.ru/news/3861550 The Foreign Ministry called on international structures to condemn the terrorist attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donetsk. It is noted that the shelling was carried out from Avdiivka, still under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, using weapons supplied by the West. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ strikes on Donetsk and the West’s participation in this will be the subject of discussion at UN Security Council events, in which Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will take part. |
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