The General Staff of the Army of Ukraine has claimed this Sunday the authorship of a series of missile attacks launched over the weekend against command posts and warehouses in Russian-occupied territorywhich has reported at least seven injuries in the last hours in Donetsk, in the east of the country.
The statement from the Ukrainian military high command did not identify specific targets, but indicated that the attacks were carried out with artillery and missiles.
However, Russian forces launched their own salvo attacks on Sunday. “The danger remains that the enemy will launch targeted rocket and drone attacks against our energy infrastructure and the entire area of Ukraine,” the statement said.
Russia, for its part, reported multiple Ukrainian artillery strikes on the southeastern city of Melitopol Saturday. Russian air defense systems also intervened over that city, as well as over Simferopol, on the Crimean peninsula.
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This Sunday, the Russian authorities in Donetsk have reported damage from a bombardment against a children’s hospital. Other attacks have caused significant damage to 20 multi-story residential buildings in the Kievsky district of this city.
The number of civilians injured as a result of the shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops has risen to seven people, as confirmed by the city’s Russian mayor, Oleksiy Kulemzinin a statement collected by the Russian agency TASS.