The Ukrainian army said on Tuesday evening that it had targeted a Russian “training” in Makiivka, an occupied city in eastern Ukraine, where Russian media reported one dead and 36 injured civilians.
“As a result of the firepower of the (Ukrainian) Defense Forces units, another formation of Russian terrorists in the temporarily occupied Makivka area ceased to exist,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces Strategic Communications Office said. on Telegram. In a video attached to this message, an explosion is visible in the distance, as well as the silhouette of at least one building.
Ukrainian forces carried out “violent attacks” on residential areas and a hospital complex in Makiivka, Denis Pushilin, head of the Russian occupation of the Ukrainian region of Donetsk, said on Telegram. A “man born in 1961 died and 36 civilians were injured to varying degrees of severity,” according to the Russian agency Interfax, relying on a statement from officials installed by Moscow in Donetsk. “Nine health establishments (…) were damaged” in Makivka, the Russian state agency TASS also indicated.