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Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine said Monday that four civilians were killed and 22 others wounded in "massive" shelling by Kiev forces against the city of Donetsk, their self-declared capital (photo, above, from Twitter).
"Among them a child"
"Four people were killed, including a child, and 22 other civilians were wounded in the shelling" by the Ukrainian armed forces, the separatist authorities said in a press release.
According to them, the city of Donetsk was subjected to "massive shelling" by Kiev forces yesterday Monday, with "force, intensity and duration unprecedented" since the start of the Russian military offensive in Ukraine in late February.
In two hours "nearly 300 artillery rockets and shells" hit various districts, they explained.
The separatists said a Donetsk maternity hospital was hit by Ukrainian fire, though they did not mention casualties in this particular instance. They published photos showing broken windows and pregnant women sheltering in a corridor.
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Donetsk is the capital of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, one of two pro-Russian separatist entities in eastern Ukraine whose independence is not recognized by the international community.
It is located close to the front line. Yesterday morning, a French Agency reporter in Donetsk heard several explosions.
"They have crossed all limits"
The leader of the pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, Denis Pusilin, yesterday accused Ukrainian forces of "crossing all limits" and "bombing populated areas".
He added that it was "necessary" to mobilise "more allied forces, including forces of the Russian Federation" to defend Donetsk.
In Donbass - as eastern Ukraine is known - fierce hostilities have been raging recently between Kiev forces and those of Moscow and pro-Russian separatists, especially in Severodonetsk, about 150 km north of Donetsk.
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