Shells hit hospital as Ukrainian army resumes strike on Slavyansk
RT,
30
May, 2014
Kiev’s
troops renewed the shelling of Slavyansk on Friday morning, residents
told RT. A local children's hospital and a clinic came under fire.
There are no reports of injuries.
“This
morning they hit the children’s policlinic in the center of the
city and the reception ward of the children’s hospital. It was at 5
am,” Vladimir,
a Slavyansk resident, told RT.
“The
hospital and the policlinic stand close to each other. The hospital
was damaged worse than the policlinic,” another
resident said. “There
were no victims.”
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Musaev
There
were some children staying in the hospital at the time of the attack.
They were all taken to the building’s basement for cover after the
shelling started, said Olga, a nurse working there.
“I’ve
worked here for 30 years, and I never thought I would have to come to
a ruin to do my job. That’s our government and our ‘valorous’
Ukrainian troops for you,” she
said.
Kiev
said it did not use artillery on Friday and claimed that it was the
militia, who trained their own guns on the hospital to put the blame
on the Ukrainian military.
Troops
loyal to Kiev intensified the military crackdown on the militias of
the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in mid-April. They
are using artillery, aviation and armor in a bid to take control of
the restive region.
The
military operation in eastern Ukraine will continue until the
region“can live and
function normally and the people are calm,” acting
Defense Minister Mikhail Koval stated on Friday.
Slavyansk
has been in the focus of the confrontation, which has claimed dozens
of lives, both among the belligerents and local civilians
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The militias are holding off the attacks through a combination of guerrilla tactics and weapons seized from the Ukrainian troops. They scored a major success on Thursday, when they shot down a helicopter carrying one of Kiev’s generals.
Some people in Slavyansk believe that Kiev’s troops will now retaliate for the general’s death and devastate the city.
7 children injured in
Slavyansk as Ukrainian
army shells residential area
Slavyansk as Ukrainian
army shells residential area
RT,
30 May, 2014
Seven children were hurt as the Ukrainian military shelled the city of Slavyansk, a stronghold of the protesters, in the country’s South East on Friday night, Pavel Astakhov, Russia’s ombudsman for children’s rights, said.
“According to the public health department of the Donetsk regional administration, seven children were injured by bullets and shrapnel during the bombardment by the Ukrainian army,” Astakhov wrote on Twitter.
Self-defense forces in Slavyansk say the Ukrainian military shelled the town’s residential area during the night, with one of the shells hitting a children’s hospital.
Self-defense forces in Slavyansk say the Ukrainian military shelled the town’s residential area during the night, with one of the shells hitting a children’s hospital.
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