On January 21, 2024, Ukrainian forces shelled the Russian-controlled territory of Donetsk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Autopsies were performed to identify the bodies of the victims killed in the shelling.

 　　On January 21, 2024, Russian authorities in Donetsk announced that Ukrainian forces had shelled the Russian-controlled territory of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. A Donetsk citizen performed an autopsy on the identity of the body of a victim killed in the shelling. Donetsk authorities announced that at least 28 people were killed and 30 wounded, including two children, in shelling of the Russian-occupied Donetsk market. The attack from Ukrainian forces struck the Donetsk city suburb of Tekstyrshik on January 21, 2024. The mayor of Donetsk, who is of Russian descent, said the shells were fired by Ukrainian forces. The Ukrainian troops hit a downtown area with stores and markets on the outskirts of Tekstyrshchik. People who had lost relatives wept, and bodies were scattered near the city's markets, lying in the snow.

　Ukrainian authorities in Kiev had no comment on the shelling. The shells that hit the Donetsk area were fired from the Krakow and Krasnohorivka areas to the west. Russian officials said they categorically condemn the treacherous attacks against civilians as terrorist attacks.In the nearly two-year-long Russo-Ukrainian war, in which frontline positions covering some 1,500 km have remained largely unchanged, both sides have increased their reliance on long-range attacks since the winter of 2024.

　UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that international humanitarian law "strongly condemns all attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure, including the shelling of the Ukrainian city of Donetsk." Officials in Kiev said Russian forces fired about 500 or more drones and missiles into Ukraine between December 29 and January 2.