Donetsk reports seven civilians injured by Kiev attacks

Moscow, Feb 19 (Prensa Latina) At least seven people were injured due to Ukrainian troops shelling the Voroshilovsky district in Donetsk city center, the city's mayor Alexei Kulemzin reported on Sunday.

February 19, 2023
10:22

‘According to preliminary information, seven people were injured as a result of the punitive shelling of the Voroshilovsky district. Details are being verified,’ Kulemzin wrote on his Telegram channel.

A dispatch from Sputnik news agency reports that early Sunday the Donetsk People’s Republic denounced that Ukrainian security forces fired 40 MLRS rockets at civilian areas.

It also reported damage to a library, a school, a park and a kindergarten.

The Donetsk and Lugansk republics became independent from Ukraine in May 2014 after failing to recognize the new authorities that resulted from a coup in Kiev in February 2014.

Both Donbas republics, as well as Kherson and Zaporizhzhia provinces joined Russia at the end of last September after holding self-determination referendums.