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DONETSK, Sep 1 Ukrainian Armed Forces fired on Donetsk from Grad MLRS on Knowledge Day, at least four civilians were wounded in the Kiev region and the same number — in the Petrovsky district and Aleksandrovka.
«Four victims», — this is how one of the doctors working at the shelling site in the Kievsky district answered the question.
The representative office of the DPR in the JCCC noted that At this point, they have information about three victims in the Kiev region, but these data are preliminary.
«So far we are collecting data. At the moment, there are three. Our group has left for the place,» the representative office said.
a pillar of smoke… there were wounded, a man very badly wounded, a young man, other people, a burned-out car, besieged as best they could,» local resident Natalya said.
According to a correspondent from the spot, the Donetsk City shopping mall, houses of the private sector, parked cars suffered from the shelling.
In addition, four more people were injured during the shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk and Oleksandrivka, Mayor Aleksey Kulemzin wrote in his telegram channel.
“There are victims of enemy shelling of the Petrovsky district: the microdistrict of the Trudovskaya mine, two people were injured. Two people were also wounded in the territory of the urban-type settlement of Aleksandrovka,” the post says.
The Kievsky district is located in the northern part of the city. Since 2014, when the DNR declared independence from Kyiv following a coup d'état there, the area has been regularly shelled by Ukrainian security forces. The northern outskirts of the district is considered to be the airport, which was completely destroyed as a result of many months of fighting between the Ukrainian military besieged there and the Donetsk militiamen who stormed their positions. Since 2014, when the DPR declared its independence from Kiev, this area has been regularly shelled by the Ukrainian security forces.
The village of Oleksandrivka belongs to the Petrovsky district of Donetsk and is located one kilometer from Marinka, where the positions of Ukrainian forces are located and from where the artillery shelling of the administrative center of the DNR.