Ukraine denounces the death of five civilians in an attack executed on Thursday by Russia in Donetsk

July 22 () –

The Ukrainian authorities have denounced this Friday the death of at least five civilians in attacks carried out on Thursday by Russian forces against several towns located in areas of the Donetsk region (east) still under Ukrainian control.

“Russia kills civilians”, the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Pavlo Kirilenko, has denounced in a message published on his Telegram account, detailing that three civilians died in attacks in Siversk, to which are added a deceased in Pavlivka and another in Mariintka.

He also stressed that “another ten people were injured”, before adding that “at the moment it is impossible to specify the exact number of victims in Mariúpol and Volnovaja”. “The Russians will be held accountable for everything they have done on our land,” he has settled.

The war in Ukraine broke out on February 24 after the invasion order signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who days earlier had recognized the independence of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (east), the scene of an armed conflict since 2014.