An employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR at the site of shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the center of Donetsk. Archival photoMOSCOW, 16 Jun. The German TV channel ARD admitted that it had published a fake about the “Russian attack” on Donetsk, but at the same time removed details about the “atrocities” and victims from the plot. The video about the shelling of the DPR capital was published by Tagesschau on June 13. The story claimed that the attack was carried out by the Russian side, although in reality it was staged by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Today, a refutation appeared on the Tagesschau website. The editors stated that they made an unintentional error, despite the fact that the information was presented correctly in the Reuters material to which the publication referred. .
An eyewitness spoke about the shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is also reported that the story was edited and updated. At the same time, the data on the dead and the mention of who fired at it disappeared from the updated version of the report. which, according to local residents, has not been since 2015. The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired three shells of 155 mm caliber in the Budyonnovsky district, where the Maysky market is located. A fire started at the site of the explosion. During the shelling of the market, five civilians were killed, among them an 11-year-old boy. Another 18 people were injured, including two children. Other districts of the capital of the DPR — Kirovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv — were also attacked that day, where a gas pipeline caught fire because of this. Russia launched a special operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the main tasks of the first stage have already been completed — Ukraine's combat potential has been significantly reduced. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
