Donetsk, January 18 (PolitNavigator, Alexandra Ignatieva) – All night from January 17 to 18, the sounds of powerful explosions and volleys of heavy guns did not stop in Donetsk, the city administration says.
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According to the mayor's office, as a result of military operations there is massive damage to the city's housing stock, infrastructure and communications.
"On the street Engels, 101 hits (two people were injured),” the message says.
Around the city, 152 transformer substations are de-energized in the Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky and Petrovsky districts of the city. As of this morning, the situation in Donetsk is extremely tense. Cannonade from heavy guns is heard throughout the city.
In turn, the militias report shelling of the railway station area, Kuibyshevsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk.
“On Kuibyshev, 20 minutes ago, a shell landed on a children’s playground, there is a football field for children. At 10:50 the kindergarten was hit at Dok,” local residents write on social networks.
As PolitNavigator reported, Advisor to the President of Ukraine Yuriy Biryukov said that this morning the Ukrainian military received an order to open fire on the positions of the militia in sector “B”.