Death toll rises to 10, 10 wounded in gunfire at east Ukraine’s Kramatorsk

KRAMATORSK, June 17 (Itar-Tass) - Ukrainian military forces continue a military operation in southeast of the country shelling massively and delivering missile and bomb strikes at suburbs in east Ukraine’s Donetsk regional cities of Lugansk, Slavyansk and Gorlovka. Ukrainian military forces are waging a strong heavy gunfire at the settlements of Semenovka and Cherevkovka near the Donetsk regional city of Slavyansk, a representative of people’s militia told Itar-Tass on Monday evening. “Such a strong gunfire has not taken place for a long time. Windows in the northern part of the city are shuddering from shell explosions,” he said. Military forces had waged artillery fire at central Kramatorsk situated right ten kilometres away from Slavyansk earlier on Monday. Ten civilians were killed and more than ten people were wounded. Missile and bomb strikes were delivered at Metallist, a Lugansk suburb, which is situated one kilometre away from the city administrative border. The gunfire lasted ten minutes, the representative of people’s militia told Itar-Tass. “For the first time in the last few days bombing was heard obviously in central Lugansk,” he said. Air alert sirens were turned on in the city. Militiamen rebuffed a Ukrainian air strike, a fighter Su-25 was presumably downed near the city of Gorlovka. The press service of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic could not confirm or deny this information. The situation in east Ukraine keeps deteriorating as long as Ukrainian army is shelling residential areas from multiple fire launch systems Grad and tanks and is delivering air strikes. Military forces used unguided shells, phosphorous bombs that according to Russian Ambassador at the United Nations Vitaly Churkin “can be qualified as a war crime.” Learn more on itar-tass.com