“The enemy aimed to do as much harm as possible to the civilian population,” declared Denis Pushilin, head of this self-proclaimed republic, under Russian control.
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Four people were killed and thirteen others injured in a Ukrainian strike over the New Year on the Russian-controlled town of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, the regional official installed by Moscow. According to Denis Pouchiline, head of the “Republic” self-proclaimed Donetsk, Ukrainian forces targeted the center of this pro-Russian stronghold using cluster bombs.
“The enemy aimed to do as much harm as possible to the civilian population”he said on Telegram, asserting that these strikes had not “no sense on a military level.” According to the rescue services cited by the Russian news agency Tass, a journalist was among those killed and another among the injured.
The Ukrainian strikes also damaged a school, apartment buildings, a store, a business center and other buildings, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Telegram. Donetsk, a large city in eastern Ukraine, came under the control of pro-Russian separatists led by Moscow in 2014 and has since been regularly bombarded by the Ukrainian army.
