Infant among those injured in Ukrainian strike – Russian mayor
A Ukrainian strike on the city of Gorlovka in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic has left at least sixteen people injured, including a one-year-old child, according to the city’s mayor, Ivan Prikhodko.
Kiev’s forces launched an artillery strike targeting the city center on Tuesday, the mayor said on his Telegram channel, where he posted a video and photos from the scene of streets filled with debris. The doors of several buildings, including apartment blocks, had been smashed in by explosions. A bus was also hit in the strike, according to Prikhodko.
At least one person is in critical condition, the mayor said, without revealing any further details about the injured.
Gorlovka, which is located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk, is one of the biggest cities in the People’s Republic. Before the conflict, it was home to some 250,000 people. It has been frequently targeted by Kiev’s forces.
In early April, 16 civilians were injured when a Ukrainian kamikaze drone struck a bus in the city. A similar UAV strike targeted a passenger bus near Gorlovka in mid-March.
Last month, Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large overseeing investigations into alleged war crimes, highlighted a rising number of civilian casualties resulting from Ukrainian attacks on vulnerable locations such as Gorlovka.
According to Miroshnik, these attacks intensified as the US was pushing for peace negotiations between Moscow and Kiev. This indicated that Ukraine was seeking to obstruct those efforts, the diplomat said at the time.
