On Christmas Eve, the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit city hospital No. 6 in Donetsk. The hospital’s staff organized an evacuation of the patients to a shelter in the basement and provided all necessary care to them.
“In Leninsky district, on the territory of hospital No. 6 on Klinicheskaya Street, three patients sustained injuries,” Mayor Alexey Kulemzin wrote on Telegram.
Kulemzin added that the roof and glazing of the hospital building were damaged in the attack, with window frames and doors blown out.
The Ukrainian military has been launching daily attacks on Donetsk throughout the winter holidays. The shelling of the city center on New Year’s Eve left four people dead and 13 more injured. The Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) strikes on residential areas in downtown Donetsk as residents prepared to ring in 2024 and in the early hours of Monday morning came just a day after a similar attack on Russia's border city of Belgorod.
The head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, told Sputnik that what sets Moscow apart from the regime in Kiev is that Russia’s Armed Forces only target military installations as part of the ongoing special operation.