Donetsk. Airstrike Kalininsky District. 06 Aug 2014 (DPR)
REBEL-HELD DONETSK HIT BY AIR STRIKE AS GOVT FORCES CLOSE IN - 6 Aug - An air strike hit the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk in east Ukraine Wednesday, as government forces preparing to retake the city said 18 soldiers were killed in clashes with rebels. Kiev denied that it was behind the strike, which caused no civilian casualties, according to local authorities. […]
"The district of Kalininsky was hit overnight by an air strike ... there were no civilian victims," the city council said in a statement, adding that one bomb had left a four-metre (13-foot) wide and 1.5-metre deep hole in the road. The site, located in a light industry area of warehouses, was seven kilometres (four miles) east of central Donetsk and the regional administration headquarters, held by the rebels.
An AFP reporter on the ground saw two large craters in the road and another across some railway tracks about 100 metres away, as well as a severely damaged warehouse and a three-storey office building with all its windows blown out and the roof peeled back. The rebels said the strike occurred at 12:40am (2140 GMT).
Police and firefighters milled about as well as international OSCE observers who have been monitoring the situation in Ukraine and were taking pictures of the scene, accompanied by a few rebels. An above-ground gas pipe was down and the city council said that engineers were working on another unexploded bomb.
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