Ukraine’s Krasnohorivka under Russian shelling on Sunday: Hospital, school buildings damaged

Russia`s hybrid military forces have been shelling residential areas of the Ukrainian-controlled town of Krasnohorivka in Donbas for two hours on Sunday, May 28, according to chief of the Main Police Department in Donetsk region Viacheslav Abroskin.

”Krasnohorivka. At 06:40 local time, militants started shelling the town. There are reports about a damaged building of a municipal hospital. Several shells have hit the residential area (near a plant),” he wrote on Facebook.

Hospital in Krasnohorivka

”Information about damages and the injured is being verified. Investigators from the police of the town of Maryinka are working on the spot,” he wrote on Facebook.


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He reported in an update an hour later that the shelling was on.

”At 07:45, the shelling continued. Police officers started evacuating hospital workers and patients, mainly senior citizens, being under ongoing fire,” he said.

”Shells have hit school No. 2 [the school year ended last week]. The building is on fire,” he said.

The fire ceased at 08:40, he added in an update an hour later.

Earlier, on the evening of May 25, Russian proxies once again started shelling Krasnohorivka`s residential area, using banned, large-caliber weapons. Several shells exploded near the local hospital and houses.

Residential areas in Krasnohorivka

Head of Donetsk military and civilian administration Pavlo Zhebrivsky has given details about a recent attack by Russia`s hybrid military forces on the Ukrainian-controlled town of Krasnohorivka in Donetsk region on Sunday, May 28.

”Russian occupiers have again mounted attacks on Krasnohorivka. Firing from Grad systems, tanks, mortars. There are direct hits on buildings,” he wrote on Facebook on Sunday morning.

”Explosions have damaged the buildings of secondary school No. 2, the hospital. The school`s second floor has caught fire,” he added.

Zhebrivsky later posted an update, saying that rescuers had extinguished the fire.


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