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

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

“Russia kills civilians,” denounced in a message posted on his Telegram account the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Pavlo Kirilenko, who detailed that three civilians were killed in attacks in Siversk, to which are added one killed in Pavlivka and another in Mariintka.

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

The war in Ukraine broke out on February 24 following 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.