The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the strike on Donetsk with a missile “Tochka-U” with cluster munition

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the strike on Donetsk with a missile “Tochka-U” with cluster munition

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A residential area in Donetsk was hit by a Tochka-U tactical missile equipped with cluster munitions. According to Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, the shelling was carried out from the Krasnoarmeysk region, which is controlled by Kiev.

As a result, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 20 civilians were killed and another 28 people, including children, were seriously injured.

The headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported that the missile was intercepted by air defense systems above the government building in the city center. People died and were injured due to falling fragments. Eduard Basurin, deputy chief of the people’s militia of the DPR, claimed that one of the cassettes of the downed rocket went off.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of Monday morning, since the beginning of the special military operation, the Russian Armed Forces have already disabled 3,920 military infrastructure facilities in Ukraine. Over the past day, 187 objects of Ukrainian troops were destroyed, including three unmanned aerial vehicles and Bayraktar TB-2.

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Source: Rosbalt

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