Tornado rocket strikes in Kramatorsk: Separatists fire at Ukraine’s HQ, hit residential area
A video that shows shelling of the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk has appeared on the Internet today.
Rocket strikes hit Ukraine’s military headquarters in the east of the country and a nearby residential area on Tuesday (February 10), wounding many army personnel and civilians, President Petro Poroshenko said.
“Twenty-five minutes ago, the main headquarters of our anti-terrorist operation took a strike from a Tornado rocket. The headquarters took this strike, but a second strike was carried out on residential areas of Kramatorsk,” Poroshenko told parliament.
Russian-backed militants on Tuesday fired long-range rockets at the Ukrainian military headquarters in Kramatorsk, Unian.net cites Viacheslav Abroskin, head of the Interior Ministry in Donetsk region.
A Reuters photographer saw a dead woman’s body after one rocket attack in Kramatorsk, a town about 50 km (30 miles) from front-lines and from where Kiev’s military directs its campaign against pro-Russian separatists.
The government-controlled Donetsk regional administration said the rockets had been fired from the rebel-controlled Horlivka area, which is about 50 km away from Kramatorsk.
At least 5 civilians were killed and 16, including 2 children, were wounded in the strike on Kramatorsk, liga.net reports with a reference to the local authorities.
www.belsat.eu/en, following Reuters
