‘Long way from peace’: Over 10 civilians killed in E. Ukraine shelling after Minsk agreement
RT.com
February 13, 2015
At least 10 civilians, including three children, have been killed in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine in the 24 hours since the “Normandy 4” leaders reached a peace deal in Minsk and announced the ceasefire that begins Sunday.
Three children and one adult have been killed during the shelling of the Donbass town of Gorlovka, three civilians have died in Donetsk, and at least 15 people have been wounded in the daytime after the new agreement was reached in Minsk, a Donetsk militia representative told reporters. “Yesterday during the shelling in a private house in Gorlovka three children died – a one-year-old boy and girls aged six and 12,” Eduard Basurin said Friday.
According to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, during the same period three civilians were killed and 11 were wounded in shelling by Donetsk self-defense forces, RIA Novosti reported.
Loud artillery volleys and explosions were heard in northern Donetsk on Friday morning. A shell hit the territory of a local kindergarten and a woman was wounded, but no children were inside the building.
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