Ukraine bombs Donetsk with phosphorus bombs, the city is empty - RBC
Moscow - Kyiv, September 2 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Donetsk is subjected to constant and increasingly intense artillery and Grad attacks. An RBC correspondent witnessed the bombing of the city with phosphorus bombs. Almost nothing works in the city, except for transport, some pharmacies and grocery stores where food is running out. Constant interruptions in water, communications and internet.
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Bombs hit residential buildings and areas, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, that is, civilian objects. During the three weeks of the RBC correspondent’s stay in the city, shells never hit the militia’s military targets, but dozens of civilians were killed and wounded, the author writes in today’s photo report from the besieged capital of Donbass.
The western regions - Kirovsky, Petrovsky, as well as Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv, bordering the front line - suffer from shelling more often than others. Residents are advised to seal all windows with tape to avoid injury from glass knocked out by the shock wave, and also not to leave their homes and shelters unless absolutely necessary.
To survive, residents of Donetsk are forced to hide in the basements of houses. Many of them are not suitable for bomb shelters and are even dangerous. There is no warning system for shelling in the city: people have to live in these basements or hide in them when explosions occur near their houses.
Schools, kindergartens, hospitals, and sports facilities are also under fire. According to the UN, 200 schools were destroyed - the start of the school year in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions was disrupted.
Donetsk looks very deserted. According to the head of the Supreme Council of the DPR, Boris Litvinov, the city's population has decreased by about 50%, but local residents and militias talk about 60-80%. Those who remained were mostly elderly people, those who do not have the opportunity to leave, as well as people who actively support the militias.
Crime in Donetsk, according to local residents, has decreased significantly. The point is not only that the city is empty, but also that every second person has means of defense.
Most of the city's industrial enterprises have been stopped: workers either left or joined the militia.
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