Twenty-seven people were killed and 25 wounded when Ukrainian troops shelled the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on January 21, 2024, Russian-appointed Donetsk Oblast Headman Denis Pushilin said on January 21. Photographs showed people crying, some saying they had lost relatives, and bodies lying on the blood-soaked snow near the city's marketplace. Markets and stores in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk were targeted by multiple rockets, and the shelling was carried out from the Avdiivka direction, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
On January 21, 2024, a deadly attack by Ukrainian forces caused casualties in a busy market in Donetsk. Russian authorities demanded a meeting of the UN Security Council on January 22. In Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry called the attack a barbaric terrorist act by Ukrainian forces, carried out with weapons supplied by Western countries. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the deadly January 21 attack on Russian-controlled areas of Donetsk Oblast. Attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure are prohibited under international humanitarian law.
The Russian Ministry of Health reported on January 21 that 18 victims of the shelling by Ukrainian forces in Donetsk, including two children, had been taken to hospitals. Donetsk People's Republic representative Denis Pushilin reported that at least 25 civilians lost their lives in the January 21 morning attack.
Eighteen Donetsk citizens, including two children, were taken to the hospital by medical teams after being wounded in the shelling of a market in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian armed forces. Two of the wounded received outpatient treatment at medical facilities.
Warning: People walk past bodies of Victims killed durong the Ukrainian shelling on Donetsk, Sunday, Jan 21,2024 (AP)
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