At least 41 people have suffered injuries in the most recent attack by the Ukraine armed forces on the city of Makeevka in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), including children, the city's mayor Vladyslav Klyucharov said on Wednesday.
"Late in the evening, the enemy carried out fierce strikes on residential areas and a hospital complex in the Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka... ," the acting head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said on Telegram, adding that a number of civilian buildings, including residential dwellings, a hospital, a school and a kindergarten, have been damaged.
Dmitry Gartsev, the acting health minister of the DPR, said on Telegram that eight of the region's healthcare and medical facilities sustained damage from the attack, with the ensuing blasts shattering windows, and destroying the doors and facades of the buildings.
The DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination covering Ukraine's war crimes said in a statement that the number of civilians wounded in Ukraine's strikes has climbed to 36.
A trauma department employee of the Hospital No.2 in Makeevka told Sputnik that there were no casualties among the hospital's patients and staff, adding that there were about four rocket strikes.