The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) fired several shells that hit the market near the railway station in Donetsk. Izvestia war correspondent Roman Polshakov spoke about the situation on the ground.
There were civilians in the market during the attack. The incident set fire to several stalls. During the incident, local residents went to the shelter.
“There is a crackle of fire, something is now exploding. Possibly gas bottles. These are the fragments we found near the railway station,” Polshakov shows a still hot fragment the size of a palm
A city dweller, Victoria Usmanova, told the film crew that she works in this market and now, because of the shelling, she cannot go home. She noted that there are no military facilities nearby.
“Don’t they know that people live here and there are no military men? It’s just a train station, just a market. Just people live, just little kids live,” she said.
Earlier that day, Donetsk Mayor Aleksey Kulemzin said that three kindergartens and a lyceum had been damaged as a result of the shelling of the Kievsky district of the city. In addition, the Kuibyshev region also came under fire. Also, due to the attack by the armed formations of Ukraine, a fire broke out at the DonPlastAvtomat plant.
On the eve of the Ukrainian security forces fired at the Kuibyshevsky district of the city. Ammunition hit the apartment buildings.
The special operation to protect the Donbass, the beginning of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, continues. Earlier, the situation in the region worsened due to shelling by the Ukrainian military. After that, the authorities of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics turned to Moscow for help.
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