from thefreeonline on 20th March 2023 by Christelle Néant PatrickLancaster and Donbass Insider
Shelling and bombing of civilian areas in breakaway Donbass continues since 2014 despite agreements. Only now the Ukraine military are using US Himars missiles accurate to just 3 meters.

On 11 and 12 March 2023, the Ukrainian army shelled residential areas in the Donbass region in both the DPR and LPR (Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics) with HIMARS and Smerch multiple rocket launchers and 155 mm NATO shells, killing five civilians, including an eight-year-old child and a 17-year-old teenager, and injuring 18 other civilians, including two children.
On Saturday 11 March 2023, in Donetsk (DPR), the Safronov family went by taxi to celebrate Nikita’s birthday. That day the little boy was eight years old. Born in 2015, Nikita has only known war, and unfortunately he has not had the chance to discover what life is like in peacetime.

At 1.25pm, as their taxi was driving down Yugoslavia Street in the Kuybyshevski district of Donetsk, the Ukrainian army fired two 155mm shells (NATO standard) at this purely residential area.

One of the two shells fell near the taxi, with shrapnel flying into the right side of the cab, killing Nikita’s father instantly. The little boy died of his wounds in the ambulance that was taking him to the hospital.
His name has been added to the already too long list of children killed by Ukrainian shelling since 2014 in Donetsk’s Angel Alley.
Watch Patrick Lancaster’s on-the-spot report in English:HERE

Later the same day, in Staromikhailovka (DPR), a Ukrainian drone dropped a grenade on a village street, injuring a 29-year-old man.
On the morning of Sunday 12 March 2023, the Ukrainian army shelled the boundary between the districts of Budionovsky and Kalininsky in Donetsk with Smerch and HIMARS multiple rocket launchers in order to saturate the Russian anti-aircraft defence.
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