“PEOPLE SCREAMED”
Donetsk resident Tatiana stated she heard an incoming projectile overhead, and hid beneath her market stall.
“I noticed smoke, folks screamed, a lady was crying,” she instructed an area media outlet.
“The place is there something navy right here? It is only a market,” one other resident named Tatiana instructed the identical outlet. “This is likely one of the strongest blows in latest instances,” she stated.
The strike is likely one of the deadliest town has seen since Moscow launched full-scale hostilities in opposition to Ukraine in February 2022.
Donetsk, occupied by Russia and its proxy forces since 2014, has been repeatedly focused by what Moscow has referred to as indiscriminate Ukrainian shelling.
Moscow referred to as Sunday’s assault a “barbaric terrorist assault” that confirmed the necessity for its “particular navy operation” in Ukraine.
“Safety threats and acts of terrorism shouldn’t be dedicated from the territory of Ukraine,” its overseas ministry stated.
GAS TERMINAL ABLAZE
Information of the assault got here as Russia reported one other blaze on its vitality infrastructure, this time at a gasoline terminal within the Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga.
Kyiv earlier this week claimed duty for 2 assaults on oil depots in Russia, together with one in the identical Leningrad area the place Ust-Luga is positioned.
Operator Novatek stated there have been no victims and that the hearth was “at present localised” on the website, about 110km west of St Petersburg close to the Estonian border.
The hearth was brought on by an “exterior issue”, it stated, with out offering any additional element.
Ukraine, which has focused Russian oil and gasoline infrastructure all through the just about two-year battle, didn’t instantly touch upon the incident.
“No casualties on account of a fireplace at Novatek’s terminal within the port of Ust-Luga. Personnel had been evacuated,” Aleksandr Drozdenko, governor of Leningrad Oblast, stated.
He shared a photograph displaying firefighters spraying water on a big fireplace on the terminal.
The RIA-Novosti information company reported {that a} 100 cubic metre container was ablaze.
The Ust-Luga complicated processes pure gasoline condensate into naphtha, jet gas and ship gas elements, in response to Novatek’s web site.
