Two senior officials of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic are injured after a Ukrainian shelling

Dec. 22 () –

The prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Vitali Khotsenko, and the former director general of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Dmitri Rogozin, have been injured after the bombing of a hotel in the city of Donetsk allegedly perpetrated by the Ukrainian Army.

“PRD Prime Minister Vitali Khotsenko was injured during the shelling of a hotel in Donetsk, (although) there is no threat to his life. The people accompanying him were also injured,” the press service reported. of Khotsenko in a statement collected by the Tass agency.

Likewise, the Donetsk authorities have reported that the prime minister of the self-proclaimed DPR “feels good.”

For his part, Dmitri Rogozin has been injured and has been transferred to a hospital after being injured in the back.

“On the outskirts of Donetsk, a hotel has been bombed, in which a group of military advisers headed by Dmitri Rogozin had been living for the past few months. Rogozin was wounded in the back and has been hospitalized. There is no threat to life “, a source close to the former general director of Roscosmos told TASS.

“The attack was clearly targeted. Experts are inclined to believe that a 155-millimeter Caesar self-propelled artillery mount, developed and manufactured by the French company Nexter, was used for the attack,” added a Rogozin aide, accusing the Forces Ukrainian Armed Forces of the alleged attack.