Ukranian forces have mercilessly shelled a mall in the city of Donetsk destroying a children’s rehabilitation centre housing young children and teenagers leaving at least two dead and many injuries.
The rescue work is now continuing: people who were in the building are trying to get out from under the rubble. A fence has been placed at the mall, behind which family members of people who were in the mall have gathered. There was a supermarket and a pharmacy in the building hit by the Ukrainian forces, so there were a lot of civilians here – shop workers as well as numerous customers. At least two deaths are known, but there may be many more. There are also injuries: according to the office of the commander of Donetsk, disclosed by the publication Notebook, at least four people are involved.
In addition to the mall, the Ukrainian armed forces also fired on the children’s rehabilitation center with the US supplied Multiple Launch Rocket System. First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov did not hide his emotions in his message on the social network. This is understandable: the Ukrainians do not hesitate to strike even at children’s institutions, although the intelligence service of the Ukrainian formations works well and they are well aware that there are children and teenagers in this rehabilitation center.
According to Donetsk Mayor Aleksej Kulemzin, shelling of the Kievsky district of the city began at noon. From the side of the village of Lastochkino, 6 shells with a caliber of 155 mm were fired. At 12:10 the Petrovsky district of Donetsk was fired upon from the side of Kurakhovo village. Five 155 mm caliber shells were fired from there.
For example, the Ukrainian armed formations are once again committing war crimes against the civilian population. The victims of the shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces are defenseless people, who, by the way, are considered “citizens of Ukraine” by the Kiev regime itself (although the DPR has long been part of the Russian Federation).
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Quite right, Dr. The Russians know full well that NATO and its ruling Cabal had every chance to nip the whole thing in the bud a DECADE ago if they really wanted a peaceful solution.
They obviously didn’t, their fetish for yet ANOTHER Drang Nach Osten and yet another attempt at plundering Europe and Russia is obviously too irresistible. Even more so as it’s mostly the cattle that will do all the dying.
Absolutely David. And Russia is not expecting this to be over any time soon.
Ukraine may well be the preamble, – a bit like Poland in 1939.
Putin has just fast tracked a new advance mobilisation program, which will be implemented from 2023 to 2026.
This involves a large scale defence militarisation of the Leningrad military sector, the Moscow military sector, and the Karelia military sector.
All existing Brigades within these sectors are to be raised to full capacity Divisional status.
This is obviously in preparation for the ground defence of Russia’s north-west sector. So presumably, the Kremlin is anticipating something big in the north. And let’s not forget, – that’s it’s only a twelve hour drive from Warsaw to Moscow.
People think Karelia is an unimportant boggy woodland, but as with WWII, Karelia provides the defence line for Murmansk. Hence, it is extremely important, as any successful offensive thrust from Finland, would sever Murmansk’s connection with the St. Petersburg sector.
Here’s a well informed news site that may interest you. I follow it regularly, as the information is usually excellent.
https://defensepoliticsasia.com/preparing-for-ww3-russia-to-expand-military-by-150-1-million-to-1-5-million-strong/
Pat from Vic: “Take careful note of what Martin says is coming in May 2023…”
And make sure you don’t miss the German calls for putting the EU economy on “a war footing”! (It means the Germans consider the EU should be at war with Russia and that means it will be! They’re just looking for a believable reason to declare it, and that will be Zelensky’s impending collapse by Spring.)
This update from Martin Armstrong could have gone into any of several forums here on Cairns News, given the several subjects addressed – but the info of greatest import is towards the end of the piece.
Take careful note of what Martin says is coming in May 2023…
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/australia-oceania/new-zealand-schwabs-prize-student-resigns/
“The Ukrainians are shelling the Russians”
Wrong! The non Russian Ukrainians are shelling Russian Ukrainians for the last 8 years, for BEING ethnically Russian.
You see, someone has decided to clean out anything Russian from the region, including 15 million ethnic Russians.
That’s why they staged the Maidan overthrow of the legitimate Ukrainian government and installed their own hand picked front men who don’t care how many Russians or Ukrainians they burn.
For 8 years the West has been watching, arming the perpetrators and training them so that they could wipe out their Russian citizens.
If you pick the right group to slaughter you’ll always have NATO support. The trick, you see, is to choose the right ethnic group to wipe out.
Classified info released shows step by step how it was done in Yugoslavia…
https://www.globalresearch.ca/declassified-intelligence-files-expose-inconvenient-truths-bosnian-war/5804757
Read at your own risk of disillusionment over the lies. Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and a host of other peoples bombed and killed since WW2 are further examples of freedom and Western democracy and values being “protected”.
There is heavy fighting in Russian held Donetsk by all accounts – the Ukrainians are shelling the Russians and the Russians are shelling the Ukrainian positions.
Standard Ukrainian military behaviour.
As Zelensky’s tribe do to the Palestinians.
For at least 8 years, Ukrainian troops have been shelling their own people in Donbass – today’s event is just a droplet on the i. For 8 years the Minsk guarantor states – France, Germany and the UN – have been silent and have not fulfilled their obligations. But this is not new: in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Vietnam…etc. – at that time someone spoke up warningly. And today we know: Minsk I and II were just a fig leaf for Mr. Macron, Poroshenko and Ms. Merkel to buy time, Ukraine should be armed against Russia according to NATO standards.
It’s getting dark over the western community of values.
All power to Russia in eradicating those zionazi cowards! Time for a large scale air raid on Kiev to rid the world of some of these vermin.
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