Russia: ‘Ukraine’s Market Attack Kills Dozens’
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
MOSCOW/KYIV/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – Moscow on Sunday condemned Kyiv for allegedly shelling a market in the Russian-occupied eastern part of Ukraine, killing at least 25 people.
Sunday’s attack on the outskirts of Donetsk was a “barbaric act of terrorism,” the Russian foreign ministry said, adding that Ukraine attacked with “the use of weapons supplied by the West.”
The ministry stressed that the “Russian side categorically condemns this treacherous strike against the civilian population.”
Besides those killed, about 20 people were injured in the strike on the suburb of Tekstilshchik, including two children, said Denis Pushilin, head of the Russian-installed authorities in Donetsk.
He said the Ukrainian military had fired the shells, but there was no immediate response from Kyiv.
However, Russian forces also struck the Zaporizhzhia region inside Ukraine 95 times across 16 localities in the last day, the regional governor Yurii Malashko said in published remarks.
He said a 71-year-old man was injured in Huliaipole due to artillery shelling, where there were also two reports of destroyed residential buildings.
WAR SPREADING
The war in Ukraine also spread again to Russia on Sunday as fire broke out at a terminal of Russia’s largest liquefied natural gas producer, Novatek, on the Baltic Sea early Sunday in a suspected Ukrainian drone strike, the governor of the Leningrad region announced.
“No casualties as a result of a fire at Novatek’s terminal in the port of Ust-Luga. Personnel were evacuated,” Alexander Drozdenko added on the Telegram messaging service early Sunday.
“A high alert regime has been introduced in the Kingiseppsky district (which includes the port),” he stressed, noting that the blaze was “localized.”
It was the third attack on crucial Russian energy infrastructure in as many days.
Moscow has also accused Ukraine of being behind a drone strike that sparked a massive inferno at an oil depot in western Russia on Friday after a similar attack on one of Russia’s largest refineries.
Kyiv has called the attacks a response to Russia’s relentless strikes at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which has impacted millions of people as winter sets in.
Hundreds of thousands of people, many of them soldiers, are believed to have been killed and j hired in the nearly two-year war sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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