At least 27 people were killed in a Ukrainian attack on a market on the outskirts of the city of Donestk in the Russian-controlled portion of the Donetsk Oblast, according to local officials.
“As a result of Ukraine’s artillery shelling attack on the Tekstilshchik district, 27 civilians have died. Twenty-five more, including two teenagers, received various wounds,” said Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, which was created in 2014 in response to the US-backed coup in Kyiv.
Pushilin said Ukrainian forces used 152mm and 155mm artillery shells in the attack on the market. According to the Pentagon, the US has provided Ukraine with over 2 million 155mm rounds and over 200,000 152mm shells.
A spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the UN chief “strongly condemns all attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure, including today’s shelling of the city of Donetsk in Ukraine.”
Russia’s Foreign Ministry condemned the attack and said Western weapons were used. “This again confirms [the West’s] direct involvement in the conflict and makes it complicit in the criminal acts of the Zelensky regime, which has once again displayed its inhumanity and hatred towards innocent people,” the ministry said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has not commented on the market bombing. Russian strikes were also reported in the Ukrainian-controlled side of Donestk on Sunday, with the governor saying two people were killed in two separate locations.
Childish rage directed at civilians because Russian soldiers are too dangerous to mess with.
He’s taking cues from buddy yahoo?
Probably. But unlike Gazans, Russians have the capability to shoot back
Relatively speaking, the Russians have exercised infinitely more precision or care not to annihilate civilians.
If Russia were to go full “shock and awe”, it would be by orders of magnitude worse for Ukraine. Peace could have been had in 2022. Thanks to the “indispensable nation”, with the help of the U.K., we are where we are now.
Agreed. And there may have never been any invasion had the US not kept poking about NATO membership for Ukraine, Fueling the color revolutions, starting a civil war and the EU forcing an ultimatum on trade instead of allowing Ukraine to trade with both Russia and the EU.
Logic always works for me ED.
As usual.
Posting false statements.
Oh, and Russia cannot go full shock and awe. They tried it at the beginning of their 3 day war and they failed miserably.
Aren’t Russians attacked all they long by Ukrainians?
What kind of dumbass comment you just posted.
Stop watching RT news and TASS.
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy hails diaspora’s support, proposes dual citizenship
https://news.yahoo.com/ukraines-zelenskiy-hails-diasporas-support-103731761.html
I guess he’s looking for fresh conscripts? And funny how he chooses to change the constitution for this, but not to hold legitimate elections and permitting opposition parties as opponents.
It seems to me that most of the Ukrainian diaspora is content to support the war effort by chanting Slava Ukraini! and putting little blue and yellow flags on their social media accounts, pretty much like other Westerners. I’ll be surprised if many of them head back to take up arms (arms with a shortage of ammunition) in hopes of becoming citizens of whatever being left of Ukraine.
I was cynically thinking of this:
Zelensky government submits draft law for the mobilization of another 500,000 men
….Among the controversial aspects of the bill are proposals to cancel the passports of Ukrainians living abroad who refuse to report for mobilization, thus threatening their legal status within the country they currently reside. Following the announcement of the proposal, Ukrainians across Europe were seen waiting in line at consular offices to renew their passports before the mobilization changes take effect. In Valencia, Spain, 550 people reportedly waited in line for hours to renew their passports and ensure their legal status for the upcoming year in Spain….
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/30/nxqm-d30.html
Ah, I had missed the passport-cancellation “feature” of the mobilization scheme. I’m sure all those guys dragged back against their will and forced into service will make excellent soldiers.
In Ukraine cannon fodder doesn’t take much training.
Or do much good, except for the opponent. And the guys skimming from the flow of weapons and cash from the US and EU.
Ukraine and Israel remind me of my evil twin sisters. Zelensky and Netanyahu remind me of my evil twin brothers. But, I thank God because my mother had decided to have abortions.
Oof!
Donetsk still being shelled after all of this time? Makes one doubt a lot of the narrative involving the SMO..
Ukraine’s Military Denies Shelling of Donetsk Market that Killed 27 People
In any case, Russia has indiscriminately shelled and bombed Ukrainian cities relentlessly since the launch of its full-scale invasion, killing at least tens of thousands of civilians.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/27021
No, they have not. Overwhelmingly, Russian attacks have been launched against military targets; where civilians have been struck, it is largely (as reported in 2022 by Amnesty International) due to the Ukrainians placing artillery batteries inside or alongside schools and hospitals and residential neighborhoods. There are, of course, exceptions; some mistakes, some the result of missiles going off course, others the result of Ukrainian air defense munitions crashing back to earth. But Russia has NOT intentionally launched terror bombardments against Ukrainian civilians. If that was the plan, Kharkov, Kiev, ad Odessa would be under nightly blackouts and their civilians would be evacuated.
The more they suffer reverses on the battlefield the more the Ukrainian leadership will resort to terror tactics. Just like the Nazis at the end of WW2, wasting resources on V-weapon killing of civilians in the UK while the allies were kicking in the doors. So, shelling civilian marketplaces and residential areas in Belgorod.
One would think those shells would have been more productive if used in the defense of Avdiivka..or Kupiansk…or Chasiv Yar…or Krynky…or the recapture of Robtnye…or any of the myriad other places the Ukrainians are being dislodged from.
In Donetsk region, people have changed their views and now realize who is a friend and who is an enemy – Filashkin
https://www.kyivpost.com/uk/post/27041