This is stated by Governor Denis Pusjilin on Telegram, writes Reuters. The city is said to have been shelled with artillery. According to the city’s mayor, the attack took place at a busy market in the city. Pictures from the market show many dead people lying on the snow-covered ground by the market. Rescuers are at the scene and forensics are working to collect residue from the weapons used in the attack. The attack is one of the deadliest in Donetsk since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February almost two years ago. The town that was hit is 15 kilometers from the front in eastern Ukraine. Tatiana experienced the attack up close. – Where is the military here? This is just a market, says Tatiana to a local newspaper. – Barbaric Russian authorities call the attack a barbaric terrorist act, which shows the necessity of the “military special operation” in Ukraine. – The neo-Nazi Kyiv regime, with the support of the United States and its allies, has once again carried out a barbaric act of terrorism against the Russian civilian population, says a statement from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ukraine has not commented on the attack, which comes on the same day Ukraine is accused of attacking a large Russian gas plant not far from Leningrad. The destruction is extensive after the attack on Sunday. Photo: Reuters Donetsk is one of four Ukrainian counties that Russia annexed last year to international condemnation from both the United States and the United Nations. Russia does not control all four counties, although it claims to have annexed them. Both Russia and Ukraine have recently accused each other of escalating attacks on civilian areas in the past couple of months.
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