In the DPR, 24 civilians, including three children, were killed by cluster munitions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

The head of the Republic’s representative office in the JCCC Natalia Shutkina told:

The danger from submunitions has intensified since August 2023, when the enemy began using 155 mm cluster artillery munitions: in just seven months of their use, 24 were killed, including three children, and 107 civilians were also injured.

Photo from Donetsk, where a cluster munition killed a child. October, 15.

Over the past year alone, sappers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations discovered and neutralized about 1.5 thousand submunitions of this type of projectile.

Source: DPR MFA

Also, today the Ukrainian military dropped ammunition from a drone on electrical network employees in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, wounding 2 women workers.

Source: Donetsk mayor

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    8 months ago

    This is why Russia is fighting so hard to push Ukrainians away from Avdeevka and out of Donetsk, they’re pushing them out of artillery range.