Six injured as shelling strikes east Ukraine hospital
Pro-Russia forces say at least six people have sustained injuries when sporadic shelling hit a hospital in Ukraine’s violence-scarred eastern city of Donetsk.
The victims were identified as one doctor and five patients, they said, adding that the force of the explosion damaged the building’s facade and blew out the windows.
A university across from the medical center also suffered material damage.
“I walked out of a store and took two steps, then I heard ‘boom! boom! boom!’” said 35-year-old Denis Rybkine.
He added, “By reflex, I lay down on the ground, and I saw red bricks (from the hospital) fly and windows explode.”
Larissa Polyakova said students at the university barely missed being hit.
“Shells fell on the window. Miraculously, the students had left the room 15 minutes before. Can you imagine what would have happened if they were still inside?” she said.
Earlier on Monday, Ukraine’s military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said in a news briefing in the capital, Kiev, that three military servicemen had been killed and 66 others injured during clashes between government troops and pro-Russia forces in the country’s volatile eastern regions.
According to the latest figures released by the United Nations, more than 4,800 people have been killed in the fighting in Ukraine’s east since mid-April 2014.
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