“This is what our soldiers are fighting against, to prevent that from happening,” the head of the Kremlin press office told reporters.

The head of the civil-military administration of Melitopol, Galina Danílchenko, denounced that the explosion of a car bomb in the center of the city, in the southeast of the country, constitutes a terrorist act by the Kiev authorities aimed at intimidating the population.

For its part, the Joint Control and Coordination Center of the ceasefire regime of the People’s Republic of Donetsk reported on Monday that the Ukrainian Armed Forces bombed the territory 86 times during the last day, killing four civilians and wounding another 20.

As noted, Ukrainian attacked 13 settlements in the region using reactive artillery, cannons and mortars, damaging 47 homes and nine civil facilities.

Another bombing of the city of Donetsk, in the Donbass region, left six dead and 14 wounded, the Territorial Defense Headquarters reported today.

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