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Multiple casualties as Ukraine shells Donetsk – official

The attack targeted a busy market in the capital of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic, the regional leader said

At least 13 people have been killed and ten others wounded in a shelling of Donetsk by the Ukrainian forces, Denis Pushilin, leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic, has said.

Describing the attack as “horrendous,” Pushilin wrote on his Telegram channel that it hit a market in the Kirovsky District, in the south-western part of the city, during its busiest hour.

First responders and operatives are working at the site, clarifying the data on the dead and wounded in the attack, and searching for fragments of munitions used in the bombardment, he added.

In Kuibyshevsky District in the north-west of the city, a Ukrainian drone also dropped a grenade on repair workers fixing a heating system. One person was injured and an excavator destroyed in that attack, according to the mayor of Donetsk Aleksey Kulemzin.

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January 21, 2024 at 02:56PM
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