Amid the intensification of fighting in eastern Ukraine between Russian and Ukrainian forces, loyal separatist authorities in Donetsk announced that Ukrainian forces have launched an unprecedented bombing operation in the region.
And he announced in a statement, today, Tuesday, that “yesterday the intense bombing of the city of Donetsk resulted in the killing of four civilians, including a child, and the wounding of another 22”.
He also pointed out that the Ukrainian army had targeted the city with an unprecedented bombing in strength, intensity and duration “since the launch of the Russian military operation on February 24. He explained that within two hours, Kiev forces fired. “about 300 missiles and artillery shells in several residential areas and a hospital “.
Pictures of broken windows and pregnant women
Additionally, separatist authorities have posted pictures of broken windows and pregnant women taking refuge in a hospital room.
Donetsk leader Denis Pushilin accused Ukrainian forces of “crossing all borders” by “bombing residential areas”, stressing the “need” to bring “more allied forces, including from the Russian Federation” to defend his region, which Moscow recognized independence, unlike the countries of the world.
Interestingly, Donetsk is located near the front line between the separatists and Ukrainian forces in the Donbass region.
Violent clashes
And this region is witnessing violent clashes between the Ukrainian army on the one hand and Russian forces backed by separatists on the other.
While the fiercest battles are currently in course in the city of Severodonetsk, located about 150 kilometers north of Donetsk, which the Russian army is trying to seize, as its fall paves the way for Russian control of the great Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region, the last stronghold of Ukrainian forces East.
Russia aims to control the entire Donbas basin, after being partially seized by pro-Moscow separatists in 2014, with the aim of opening a land corridor connecting the east with Crimea, which in the same year it annexed to the its territory.
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