At least 27 people dead in attack on Donetsk in Russian-occupied Ukraine

Officials appointed by the government in Moscow said that Ukrainian shelling caused the deaths of at least 27 people and injured 25 at a market near Donetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine that is controlled by Russia.

Two children were hurt in the neighborhood called Tekstilshchik, according to Denis Pushilin, who is in charge there.

Officials in Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv, did not give a response to the situation, and The Associated Press could not confirm the claims on their own. Both sides have been using longer-range attacks more often this winter. The front line in the war has not changed much in the past two years, and it covers a distance of 1,500 kilometres (930 miles).

The bombs were shot from Kurakhove and Krasnohorivka towards the west. Pushilin said that the emergency services went to help.

The United Nations The U. N’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly disapproves of all attacks on innocent people and buildings, including the recent shelling of Donetsk in Ukraine. The spokesperson said that these types of attacks are not allowed by the rules of international humanitarian law.

Donetsk is a place in Ukraine that Russia took over without permission in 2022. This happened after Russia invaded Ukraine.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said the Ukraine was responsible for the attack and called it a terrorist attack.

Also on Sunday, there was a fire at a chemical transport terminal in Russia’s Ust-Luga port after two explosions, according to local officials. The local news reported that the Baltic Sea port is 165 kilometers (about 100 miles) southwest of St. Petersburg was attacked by drones from Ukraine and it caused a gas tank to explode.

The fire was at a place owned by the second biggest company in Russia that gets natural gas, called Novatek.

The company told a Russian news outlet that the fire was caused by something outside of their control, and that work at the port had stopped.

Yuri Zapalatsky, the leader of the Kingisepp district by the Gulf of Finland where the port is, said no one got hurt but everyone is being extra careful.

The Fontanka news outlet said that they spotted two drones flying towards St. On Sunday morning, the group was supposed to go to Petersburg but had to go to the Kingisepp district instead. AP could not check the reports by itself.

Russia’s military did not say there were any drones flying in the Kingisepp area in its daily report. It was reported that four Ukrainian drones were taken down in Russia’s Smolensk region, and two more were shot down in the Oryol and Tula regions.

Russian officials said that they shot down a Ukrainian drone near St. On Thursday in Petersburg.

In a battle in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said their forces have captured a village called Krokhmalne in the Kharkiv region. Ukrainian soldiers said the town had been taken over, but they think it won’t last long.

Volodymyr Fityo, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Ground Forces Command, said that the troops from Kyiv were moved to backup positions from the village, which used to have about 45 people before the war started.

Ukrainian news outlet Hromadske reported that he said there are five houses. “We want to protect the soldiers in Ukraine and keep them safe. ”

Lately, Russia has been launching a lot of missiles and drones at Ukraine to try and find weak spots in their defense. They are using so many that it seems like they are trying to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defense systems.

A lot of drones and missiles were launched in December. On January 29th. According to officials in Kyiv, the fighters are also using up Ukraine’s weapons.