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At least 20 killed and 50 wounded in Russian shelling in Donetsk and Lugansk, according to kyiv
The bombardments by Russian troops against 54 towns in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the last 24 hours have caused the death of twenty civilians, as reported on Friday by the Ukrainian government Group of United Forces. “According to operational information, some 20 civilians died under enemy fire and at least 50 people were injured,” the organization said in a Facebook message collected by the Ukrinform agency.
This medium adds that “the preliminary number of victims in Severodonetsk, Avdiivka, Lisichansk, Marianka and other cities and towns could be much higher” and that the information is being verified. Search and rescue operations are hampered by airstrikes, intense missile strikes and artillery shelling by Russian troops.
The United Forces Group has stated that “Moscow’s war criminals continue to destroy the infrastructure of Donbas.” The “barbaric airstrikes and shelling” completely destroyed or damaged 105 residential buildings and 15 other civilian infrastructures in one day, including a hospital, a hostel, a sports complex, a shopping mall, a bank, a sanatorium, a department of district education and a car company, warehouses, a gas pipeline and vehicles, he says.
High-rise buildings in Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Avdiivka and Bakhmut have suffered significant damage, it added. In the Donetsk region, the State Emergency Service has extinguished six fires caused by enemy fire, while in the Luhansk region this task is impossible due to the intense shelling of population centers.
Rescue teams have evacuated 1,044 people from combat zones in the last 24 hours. In his usual daily message, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has described the situation in Donbas as “hell”, which is “completely destroyed” and where the occupiers “try to further increase the pressure”. He has referred, among others, to the “brutal and senseless bombing” of Severodonetsk, where “in one day alone there were 12 deaths and dozens of injuries”. (Efe)
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