Artillery duels have begun near Mariupol: shells are flying into the city, there are casualties (VIDEO)
Mariupol, January 24 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – Panic begins in Mariupol: the village of Vostochny came under attack from GRAD missiles.
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According to local residents, the left bank of the city was shelled: a hit was recorded on Kievskaya Street, between schools No. 5 and No. 69. There, cars were burning and windows in houses were broken. The shell also destroyed the Detsky Mir store.
According to the ATO press service, at about 9.00 there were three direct Grad hits in the area of the Vostochny microdistrict. The Dnepr battalion announced shelling of the village of Vinogradny. Later, local residents clarified that the shells fell in the area of the Kyiv market, the Selpo supermarket and st. Stanislavsky.
“At that time I was walking from the market, fell to the ground, hundreds of fragments were flying around,” the publication “0629” quotes an eyewitness. Residents of the Vostochny village are leaving the shelled area en masse.
Doctors have not yet officially commented on the number of victims. It is known from eyewitnesses that on the street. Olimpiyskaya, 185, a person died as a result of the shelling. On the street Kievskaya, 33, two people were injured. A family died on the road near the Kyiv market - a husband, wife and child. Private houses are burning.
“A battle broke out at the checkpoint. Cars are ticking, people are running away. The Ukrainians from the old Crimea swung Grad at the militias, but missed and hit the houses. They say that 3 people died. Several residential buildings are on fire and cars are also on fire. People are ticking away from the area, it’s very scary. There is information that the battle is in full swing in Vinogradny,” reports in groups of DPR supporters.
In turn, Ukrainian security forces call the incident sabotage and a terrorist attack, the purpose of which is to cause panic. The commander of the second assault company of the Donbass battalion with the call sign “Captain Jacques”, writes the portal “0629”, said that there is no movement of militia forces on the front line - it remains the same.
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