City services clear debris following reported shelling of residential area in Kramatorsk

City services employees were seen using special equipment to clear the rubble in a residential area of Kramatorsk on Thursday, following reported shelling the previous evening.

“On February 1, in the city of Kramatorsk, as a result of a rocket attack, the fourth to the first floors of a four-story residential building within one entrance were destroyed, with the subsequent ignition of parked cars,” Ukraine’s Emergency Services reported on its Telegram channel.

“As a result of the shelling, the bodies of three dead persons were recovered and two people were rescued. 18 people were injured, eight of them were hospitalised,” it added.
Head of the regional local administration Pavlo Kyrylenko also reported the deaths of three residents.

The police department of Donetsk region claimed in a report on its Facebook page that Russian troops targeted the residential sector of the city with an Iskander-K missile.

Defence Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov in his turn claimed that ‘US-made M-142 HIMARS and M-270 MLRS launchers were destroyed near the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk People's Republic’.

The Donetsk People’s Republic is one of four regions, also including the Lugansk People’s Republic, Kherson and Zaporozhye, that President Vladimir Putin agreed to illegally admit to the Russian Federation, signing accession documents on September 30, 2022.

According to Moscow, it followed referenda in which people living in those areas exercised their right to self-determination and requested to join Russia.

Ukraine and its international allies condemned the move, calling it an annexation of Ukraine’s sovereign territory.

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