In the DPR, 24 civilians, including three children, were killed by cluster munitions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

In the DPR, 24 civilians, including three children, were killed by cluster munitions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

The head of the Republic’s representative office in the JCCC Natalia Shutkina told:

The danger from submunitions has intensified since August 2023, when the enemy began using 155 mm cluster artillery munitions: in just seven months of their use, 24 were killed, including three children, and 107 civilians were also injured.

Photo from Donetsk, where a cluster munition killed a child. October, 15.

Over the past year alone, sappers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations discovered and neutralized about 1.5 thousand submunitions of this type of projectile.

Source: DPR MFA

Also, today the Ukrainian military dropped ammunition from a drone on electrical network employees in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, wounding 2 women workers.

Source: Donetsk mayor