The Ukrainian Army attacked this Sunday (10.16.2022) with American-made HIMARS missiles the headquarters of the pro-Russian Administration of Donetsk, causing serious destruction and two injuries. Ukraine has not yet confirmed the attack.
“How can this new terrorist act by Ukraine be assessed? A deliberate attack was carried out against a civilian headquarters, there is no doubt about it because there have already been hits nearby. And now it is a direct hit,” he said. the pro-Russian mayor of the city, Alexei Kulemzin, quoted by the Russian agency TASS.
The head of the local Administration denounced that it was the impact of a HIMARS missile and confirmed that the property received “considerable damage”. Kulemzin published photos of the Administration on his Telegram channel, in which the half-destroyed building can be seen, with all the windows broken.
According to the Donetsk Territorial Defense General Staff, two people were injured as a result of the attack, and several cars, which were parked next to the headquarters, caught fire. “A miracle no one died,” said the mayor, noting that work is already being done to alleviate the consequences of the attack. Kulemzin indicated that the work of the Administration “has not been paralyzed, it has not stopped, all the services maintain their interaction with each other.”
The city of Donetsk is the capital of the region of the same name and is currently controlled by the Donetsk People’s Republic, backed by Russia since 2014 and which Moscow has been in the process of annexing since September along with the Kherson, Lugansk and Zaporizhia regions in the largest expansion of Russian territory in decades.
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Ukraine: these cities and towns have been liberated
Ukraine regains its territory
At the end of August, the Ukrainian Armed Forces had announced the start of a counteroffensive in the south and east of the country. By mid-October, they had managed to bring several dozen towns back under their control, including in the Ukrainian regions of Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Lugansk, which Russia annexed after false referendums.
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Ukraine: these cities and towns have been liberated
Destroyed towns, burning houses
The Ukrainian authorities reported the successes of their army. But they do not give all the names of the released locations, since the information is still blocked for security reasons. In many areas, residential buildings were destroyed during the fighting, such as here in a village in the Kherson region.
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Ukraine: these cities and towns have been liberated
Token Success: Lyman
Liman, a major shipping point in the Donetsk region, was occupied in late May. The liberation of the city is a strategic success that allows the Ukrainian armed forces to continue the offensive in the Luhansk region. The liberation was also a symbolic event, since a day earlier Moscow had announced that it would annex the occupied territories of Ukraine.
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Ukraine: these cities and towns have been liberated
mountains of military scrap
On October 1, the Russian Defense Ministry officially admitted that Russian troops had left Liman. On the highway, troops left broken tanks, trucks and destroyed military equipment. In Limán itself, the Ukrainian armed forces also discovered unused Russian ammunition.
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Ukraine: these cities and towns have been liberated
Mass grave with children
On October 7, the Ukrainian police said that, after the withdrawal of the Russians, a mass grave with 180 bodies, with entire families and children born between 2019 and 2021, was discovered in Liman. According to the Russian state news agency TASS, the The so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” responded that kyiv was passing off official graves in a cemetery as mass graves.
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Ukraine: these cities and towns have been liberated
No electricity or water
Since mid-May, many residents of Limán have had to live without electricity, central heating or water. In this photo, a man draws water from a pump; behind him is a destroyed apartment building.
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Ukraine: these cities and towns have been liberated
Long lines
Once the Ukrainian authorities regained control of Liman, they began distributing food and medicine to the city’s inhabitants. Long queues immediately formed.
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Ukraine: these cities and towns have been liberated
no more classes
In peacetime, this was the site of a school. Now the Ukrainian flag is flying again on the badly damaged building. But now you can no longer hold classes here.
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Ukraine: these cities and towns have been liberated
just a facade
In mid-September heavy fighting broke out in the town of Drobysheve, near Limán. A local resident rides his bicycle past a destroyed building.
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Ukraine: these cities and towns have been liberated
Izium: no supply for Donbas
Izium was occupied by Russia in early April. Until its liberation in September, the city served as one of the most important supply bases for Russian troops on the Donbas front. The photo shows a multi-storey residential building that was completely destroyed by shelling.
Author: Alexandra Ivanova
