MOSCOW: Ukrainian shelling of the Moscow-controlled city of Donetsk on New Year’s Eve killed four more people and wounded thirteen others, the Russian government said on Monday.
The bombardment comes at the end of a fatal week in Ukraine, in which both sides have clashed in large-scale attacks.
“As a result of Ukrainian shelling of central Donetsk on New Year’s Eve we can say that there are four dead and 13 wounded,” the Russian-installed head of Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, said in a video on Telegram, adding that Ukraine used cluster munitions.
Pushilin’s attack took place in the Voroshilov district of central Donetsk.
He accused Ukraine of “pretending to cause as much damage as imaginable to the civilian population because it uses cluster munitions. “
The U. S. has Kyiv on cluster munitions, a move criticized even by its own allies.
Cluster munitions are a questionable weapon designed to disperse tiny explosives.
They explode mid-air and scatter bomblets over a wide area, and also pose a lasting threat.
Moscow attacked Ukrainian cities on New Year’s Eve, and Kyiv claimed to have thwarted a “record” number of drones smuggled through Russia.
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