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Russia military claims 20 civilians killed in separatist stronghold in eastern Ukraine
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A view of a private house damaged by recent shelling in the settlement of Trudovskiye outside Donetsk on February 26, 2022 (Viktor ANTONYUK / AFP)
MOSCOW — The Russian military says that 20 civilians have been killed by a ballistic missile launched by the Ukrainian forces.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov says that the Soviet-made Tochka-U missile hit the central part of the eastern city of Donetsk, the center of the separatist Donetsk region.
He says that another 28 civilians, including children, were seriously wounded by the missile that carried shrapnel warhead.
Konashenkov says the missile was fired from an area northwest of Donetsk controlled by Ukrainian forces. He charged that the shelling of the area of Donetsk that has no military facilities represented a war crime.
Konashenkov’s claims couldn’t be independently verified.
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