The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has released a report after visiting the site of the shelling of a school in Donetsk, in which two teenagers were killed on November 5. Observers examined the area and identified ten shell craters.
According to observers, shells were fired from a location north-west of the school’s football pitch and were the result of high-angle fire, the BBC reported.
“All craters seen by the SMM were about one meter in diameter and the depths varied. The SMM’s analysis indicates that at least four of the craters were caused by 120mm mortar shells and two others were the result of 122mm artillery rounds,” reads the statement.
One witness said that the shelling began at 15.30 and he counted eight explosions. According to him, the first two occurred in quick succession. The other six occurred within five minutes of the first.
Observers saw a football pitch on the east side of the school, enclosed by steel mesh fencing; shrapnel damage to the pitch, fencing and goal posts; and, on the northern edge of the pitch, one meter from the fence, a shell crater, which was one meter in diameter.
The SMM saw three other craters on a nearby street. The SMM observed damage to a number of houses near these craters.
As reported, two teenagers were killed and four others were injured after a shell hit the playground of School No. 63 in Donetsk.
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