Xinhua News Agency
August 15, 2014
74 civilians killed in Ukraine’s Donetsk region over three days
KIEV: At least 74 civilians were killed in clashes between government forces and independence-seeking insurgents in Ukraine’s Donetsk region over the past three days, local authorities said Thursday.
According to the press service of Donetsk City Council, another 116 people were wounded as a result of fighting since Monday.
On Thursday afternoon, two civilians were killed and seven injured in Donetsk city, one of the rebel strongholds, when artillery fire hit several buildings in the residential area, the press service said in a statement.
In the past 24 hours, nine Ukrainian soldiers were also killed in fighting with the insurgents, and 18 were wounded, according to Andrei Lysenko, a spokesman for the National Security and Defense Council.
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