A residential building took a “direct hit,” mayor Alexey Kulemzin said
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Ukrainian troops have shelled residential buildings in Donetsk using NATO-supplied 155mm caliber artillery, the city’s officials said on Tuesday.
An apartment complex in the capital of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) “took a direct hit,” Mayor Alexey Kulemzin wrote on Telegram.
An 18-year-old civilian was killed, Kulemzin added.
Russian news agency TASS reported that the Ukrainians shelled a hotel where journalists are staying.
A video posted on social media shows gray smoke rising from what appears to be a building in Donetsk.
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