02:20'Dust and splinters flew everywhere' - Local about shelling of residential building in Donetsk
A residential building on Artema Street was seen damaged after reported shelling in the Kiev district of Donetsk on Sunday.
One local, Raisa, claimed an explosion took place in her bedroom around 12:00 (10:00 GMT), when she was in the kitchen.
"I came from the market, put my bag in the kitchen, and got undressed. Just as I started to take the groceries out of the bag, it struck! ... Water and dust and splinters flew everywhere. And if we had been there, we would have [died]. We were really frightened," she said.
The Donetsk People’s Republic’s (DPR) representation to the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported that 'three 155mm shells were fired' at the Kievsky district, claiming that a woman born in 1961 was injured in the shelling on Artema Street.
At the time of publication, the Ukrainian side had not commented on the reported incident.
The JCCC was an organisation set up in 2014 to monitor ceasefire violations and was originally composed of Ukrainian and Russian military officers, although the latter withdrew in 2017. JCCC offices of the DPR and Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) were unilaterally created and still work in the area.
The DPR is one of four regions, also including the LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye, that President Vladimir Putin agreed to allow to join the Russian Federation, signing accession documents on September 30, 2022.
According to Moscow, it followed referenda in which people living in those areas exercised their right to self-determination and requested to join Russia.
Ukraine and its international allies condemned the move, calling it an annexation of Kiev’s sovereign territory.
02:20A residential building on Artema Street was seen damaged after reported shelling in the Kiev district of Donetsk on Sunday.
One local, Raisa, claimed an explosion took place in her bedroom around 12:00 (10:00 GMT), when she was in the kitchen.
"I came from the market, put my bag in the kitchen, and got undressed. Just as I started to take the groceries out of the bag, it struck! ... Water and dust and splinters flew everywhere. And if we had been there, we would have [died]. We were really frightened," she said.
The Donetsk People’s Republic’s (DPR) representation to the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported that 'three 155mm shells were fired' at the Kievsky district, claiming that a woman born in 1961 was injured in the shelling on Artema Street.
At the time of publication, the Ukrainian side had not commented on the reported incident.
The JCCC was an organisation set up in 2014 to monitor ceasefire violations and was originally composed of Ukrainian and Russian military officers, although the latter withdrew in 2017. JCCC offices of the DPR and Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) were unilaterally created and still work in the area.
The DPR is one of four regions, also including the LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye, that President Vladimir Putin agreed to allow to join the Russian Federation, signing accession documents on September 30, 2022.
According to Moscow, it followed referenda in which people living in those areas exercised their right to self-determination and requested to join Russia.
Ukraine and its international allies condemned the move, calling it an annexation of Kiev’s sovereign territory.