SitiWanMahani - Sekurang-kurangnya 3 orang awam dilaporkan telah terbunuh dan beberapa lagi cedera apabila Tentera Ukraine melancarkan serangan mortar di bandar Slavyansk di timur Ukraine. Salah satu peluru terkena berhampiran sebuah kolej guru tempatan, menurut portal berita Ridus.
Blok-blok kediaman yang rugi akibat serangan oleh kuasa Kiev pada hari Isnin, wartawan Ridus yang dilaporkan dari tempat kejadian. Sekurang-kurangnya 2 blok pangsapuri telah rosak dan "sekurang-kurangnya 2 orang - seorang lelaki dan seorang wanita - telah dibunuh," kata wartawan itu.
"Kami datang melihat kepada lelaki itu tetapi dia sudah mati. ‘Shell’ telah jatuh sebelah blok apartmen 9 - tingkat, semua kaca itu bekecai. Kepala lelaki pendarahan, lengan dan kakinya patah.
Apabila kami pergi lebih jauh, kita dapati seorang perempuan mati berhampiran sebuah kolej guru, ‘shell’ melanda di sana juga, "RT memberitahu tempatan, sambil menambah bahawa selepas itu lelaki ketiga ditemui berdekatan.
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Wanita itu dikenal pasti sebagai Olga Prokhorenko, 60, portal berita Ridus menulis. Gambar yang disiarkan menggambarkan seorang wanita berbaring di atas rumput dengan kesan hitam darah yang besar di belakang beliau.
"Buat pertama kali dalam sebulan setengah tinggal saya di selatan- timur [Ukraine], saya melihat panik sebenar di kalangan rakyat. Mereka telah berjalan keluar dari rumah mereka di Slavyansk dengan anak-anak mereka, separuh berpakaian, "wartawan Andrey Krasnoshchyokov menulis sebarang tweet .
Wartawan tidak menolak bahawa tentera mula menembak sebagai tindak balas kepada menembak meriam oleh kuasa mengisytiharkan diri Rakyat Republik Donetsk.
"Ia tidak diketahui yang pertama memulakan, " katanya.
Rom, saksi yang berada di laman ini, memberitahu RT bahawa terdapat "kira-kira enam atau lapan kawah ‘shell" berhampiran kolej di mana badan wanita ditemui.
"Terdapat banyak kecederaan. Kira-kira 10 orang, "katanya.
RIA Novosti, memetik mempertahankan diri tempatan, laporan tembakan bersenjata di pinggir Slavyansk, di kampung-kampung Vostochny, Semyonovka dan Slavkurort. Tentera Ukraine melancarkan beberapa salvos meriam dari gunung Karachun berhampiran bandar.
Sementara itu, pertempuran terus di Donetsk melimpah dari lapangan terbang ke pusat bandar. Datuk Bandar Donetsk menggesa penduduk untuk tidak meninggalkan rumah mereka.
"Keadaan di Donetsk kekal tegang. Hari ini terdapat pertempuran bersenjata antara unit-unit artileri dan penyokong Republik Rakyat Donetsk Ukraine, "kata Aleksandr Lukyan-chenko alamat di televisyen, sambil menambah bahawa terdapat mangsa di kalangan orang awam.
Lapangan terbang Donetsk telah ditutup berikut berjuang antara kuasa-kuasa Kiev dan ‘self-defense squads’ lebih awal pada hari Isnin.
Pertempuran di Donetsk dan Slavyansk datang selepas keputusan awal pilihan raya di Ukraine telah diumumkan.
Ukraine mungkin presiden - umat pilihan, Petro Poroshenko, Isnin mengumumkan bahawa Kiev tidak akan menghentikan operasi ketenteraan di timur Ukraine, tidak ia akan menga-dakan rundingan dengan orang-orang bersenjata.
"Mereka tidak mahu bercakap dengan sesiapa," katanya pada sidang media.
Poroshenko berkata "anti -pengganas" Operasi di kawasan tenggara akan diadakan den-gan cara yang lebih cekap, dengan askar mendapatkan peluru yang lebih baik dan kehi-dupan mereka dan kesihatan diinsuranskan.
Ukrainian army shells Slavyansk residential area,
3 civilians killed (GRAPHIC VIDEO) . . .
At least three civilians have reportedly been killed and several wounded when the Ukrainian Army launched a mortar attack on the town of Slavyansk in eastern Ukraine. One of the shells fell near a local teachers college, according to Ridus news portal.
Residential blocks were ruined as a result of the assault by Kiev's forces on Monday, the Ridus correspondent reported from the scene. At least two apartment blocks were damaged and “at least two people – a man and a woman – were killed,” the reporter said.
“We came up to look at the man but he was already dead. A shell had fallen right next to a 9-storey apartment block, all the glass was out. The man’s head was bleeding, his arms and legs were broken. When we went further, we found a dead woman near a teachers college, a shell hit there too,” a local told RT, adding that after that a third man was found nearby.
The woman was identified as Olga Prokhorenko, 60, Ridus news portal writes. The published photo depicts a woman lying on the grass with a large blood stain on her back.
“For the first time in a month and a half of my staying in the south-east [of Ukraine], I see real panic among the people. They’ve been running out of their homes in Slavyansk with their children, half-dressed,” reporter Andrey Krasnoshchyokov tweeted.
The journalist did not rule out that the military began firing in response to artillery shooting by forces of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk.
“It’s unknown who started first,” he wrote.
Roman, a witness who was at the site, told RT that there were “around six or eight shell craters” near the college where the woman's body was found.
“There were many wounded. About ten people,” he added.
RIA Novosti, citing local self-defense, reports of gunfights on the outskirts of Slavyansk, in the villages of Vostochny, Semyonovka and Slavkurort. Ukrainian army launched several artillery salvos from the mountain of Karachun near the town.
Meanwhile, clashes continue in Donetsk spilling over from the airport to the city center. The Mayor of Donetsk called on residents not to leave their homes.
“The situation in Donetsk remains tense. Today there have been armed clashes between Ukraine’s artillery units and supporters of the People’s Republic of Donetsk,” Aleksandr Lukyanchenko said in a televised address, adding that there are victims among civilians.
Donetsk airport has been shut down following fighting between Kiev forces and self-defense squads earlier on Monday.
Clashes in Donetsk and Slavyansk come after the early results of the elections in Ukraine were announced.
Ukraine's likely president-elect, Petro Poroshenko, announced Monday that Kiev is not going to stop the military operation in the east of Ukraine, neither will it hold negotiations with armed people.
“They don’t want to talk to anyone,” he told a media conference.
Poroshenko said the “anti-terrorist” operation in the south-eastern regions will be held in a more efficient way, with soldiers getting better ammo and their lives and health being insured.
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