Some 50 projectiles fired by a multiple rocket launcher have dropped on the city of Donetsk, RT correspondent Roman Kosarev has reported from the scene. The strikes are said to have hit the Kalininsk neighborhood of the capital of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The shelling had earlier been reported …
Read More »Five killed by Ukrainian shelling of schools and residential buildings – Donetsk authorities
Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk has left at least five people dead, and 18 others injured, local authorities of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said on Monday. According to local officials, a teenage girl is among the fatalities. The strikes damaged several civilian facilities in the city, including schools and residential …
Read More »Civilians killed in Donetsk shelling – officials
More civilians have been killed and hurt in Donetsk after two straight days of shelling by Ukraine, officials from the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said on Tuesday. Two people were killed and five wounded, including a child, in the city’s northern Kievsky district, DPR officials said. They added that four …
Read More »Ukrainian strike on Donetsk market was a terrorist act
If the Donetsk marketplace that was hit by rocket artillery on Thursday had been in a city controlled by Kiev, the names and faces of the five civilians killed would be on all major news sites. But because it was another Ukrainian attack on civilians in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the deaths and …
Read More »Ukrainian army used Tochka-U rocket in fatal Donetsk missile attack, local expert claims
Officials in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) have claimed that a missile allegedly launched by Ukrainian forces on Monday was aimed at a residential area in their capital city, but was intercepted by air defense systems before reaching its target. However, a portion of the rocket still ended up falling …
Read More »Russia will defend Donetsk and Lugansk – Moscow
Moscow will act as a guarantor of the security and integrity of the two breakaway Donbass republics in Donetsk and Lugansk, Russia’s top diplomat has said, after the Kremlin affirmed their status as sovereign states amid a worsening standoff with Ukraine. Speaking as part of an appearance on TV channel …
Read More »WATCH Donetsk and Lugansk celebrate Russian recognition
Street celebrations broke out in breakaway republics, which Ukraine claims as its own territory, late on Monday after President Vladimir Putin said Moscow will “immediately recognize the Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR) People’s Republics.” Footage from the scene shows fireworks lighting up the skies above Donetsk, which has been the …
Read More »Breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk republics order evacuation
The leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics on Friday asked civilians to evacuate to Russia to avoid being in the crossfire. Donetsk People’s Republic head Denis Pushilin said in a statement that he expects military aggression by Ukrainian forces. The country’s troops have been bolstered with arms …
Read More »As Donetsk fighters staged a “Maidan” in Abkhazia
Clan coup attempt in Sukhum will not affect the billions in subsidies from the Republic budget. Little and almost no one recognized Republic of Abkhazia, with a population of slightly more than 200 thousand people, a few days was rocked by political upheavals. However, the Kremlin even after the storming …
Read More »Adventure Donetsk coal in Odessa port
© page Aleksandra Zakharova Around the port of Odessa there’s a new scandal, this time coal. Ukraine is experiencing a shortage of coal for the heating season in full growth is the export of coal from the Odessa sea port. The peculiarities of the coal business in Ukrainian versed …
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