The head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration (RMA), Vadym Filashkin, reported that Russian troops shelled populated areas of the Donetsk region 14 times a day.
The Russian army shelled the Donetsk region
Occupants injured a person in Krasnohorivka of Pokrovsky District, another person was also wounded in Ocheretyne, and a house was damaged.
The Russians struck the outskirts of Lyman and Kostyantynivka communities. Four private residential buildings in the Chasovoyarsk community were damaged. A house in Serebryanka was also damaged. In Zvanivska hromada, Russian troops shelled Pereizne and Verkhnyokamianske, and in the Soledar community — Rozdolivka and Fedorivka.
What is known about the shelling of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk on February 17
On the evening of February 17, explosions rang out in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region. As a result, fires started in two cities of the region.
In Sloviansk, a school was partially destroyed by shelling. Rescuers are sorting through the debris, where one person is likely to be.
In Kramatorsk, two dead people were found under the rubble of a private house, and they are looking for one more person.
t head of the Donetsk RMA, Vadym Filashkin, reported that around midnight in Kramatorsk, rescuers retrieved the body of a 23-year-old man from under the rubble.
He added that 26 rescuers continue their work in Kramatorsk and another 24 in Sloviansk.
Around that time, the Russians targeted a private residential building in Kramatorsk, where three civilians were staying.
A 46-year-old mother and her 23-year-old son died — their bodies were unblocked.
During the search and rescue operations, the remains of the body, probably of the grandmother of the dead young man, were also found.
In addition, a couple of pensioners who were injured while in their own home, a 78-year-old man and his 75-year-old wife, were taken to the hospital.