Russians shell residential area near Kramatorsk, killing and wounding civilians
The Russians shelled the residential sector of Oleksiyivka-Druzhkivka (Photo:Павло Кириленко/Telegram)
Two Ukrainian civilians were killed, and four others wounded when Russian invasion forces shelled the town of Oleksiyivka-Druzhkivka in Donetsk Oblast, the region’s governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reported on Telegram on April 5.
The Russians struck the settlement at around 11:00 a.m., targeting a residential area with cluster munitions.
Emergency services are currently working to neutralize unexploded ordnance at the site of the impact.
Russian occupiers regularly shell the front-line settlements of Donetsk Oblast. Over the past day, they have killed four civilians and injured 11 others.
Meanwhile, on April 4, the invaders announced the forced evacuation of children from 21 settlements in the Russian-occupied part of the oblast.
The International Criminal Court recently announced that it was opening two war crimes cases against Russia, one of which concerns illegal attacks on civilian infrastructure, and the other on the forced deportation of children from Ukraine.
Russia claims to have annexed Ukraine’s Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson oblasts, but it does not have complete control over any of them. It lost control of the city of Kherson – the only major Ukrainian regional center it managed to capture in its full-scale invasion – in early November last year, and has so far been forced to retreat from small parts of Zhytomyr Oblast, and parts of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy Kharkiv, Luhansk and Kherson oblasts.
About 18% of Ukraine’s internationally recognized territory remains under Russian occupation – including Ukraine’s Crimea and the parts of the Donbas that were invaded by Russia in 2014.
The Kremlin falsely declared it had annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 – but this claim has only been recognized by a handful of the world’s rogue and pariah states.
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