{"id":13129,"date":"2018-05-28T08:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T08:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=13129"},"modified":"2018-05-31T06:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T06:29:49","slug":"russian-hybrid-army-continues-heavy-shelling-of-civilian-areas-in-donbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/russian-hybrid-army-continues-heavy-shelling-of-civilian-areas-in-donbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Hybrid Army Continues Heavy Shelling of Civilian Areas in Donbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intense fighting continued for weeks across the entire front line in eastern Ukraine. Svitlodarsk, Horlivka, Donetsk, and Mariupol areas have been among the hot spots. The Russian hybrid army is not only trying to push against the Ukrainian forces but is also firing at civilian areas.<\/p>\n<p>During a week, the following areas were subjected to heavy shelling by Russian forces.<\/p>\n<h2>May 21<\/h2>\n<p>The city of Toretsk (Donetsk Oblast), near Horlivka.\u00a0Ukrainska, Tsvetochna and Zaliznychna Streets were shelled by artillery. Some buildings were damaged. The Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation in Toretsk was shelled. At the time, 28 children were inside the Center. Luckily, there were no casualties, children were urgently evacuated from the building.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"978\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uuzcjgJI4es?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Video: Toretsk police evacuates children from the Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Town of Zaitseve (Donetsk Oblast), near Horlivka. During the shelling, a 60-year-old woman was injured, she was hospitalized with a blast injury.<\/p>\n<h2>May 20<\/h2>\n<p>Zaitseve. Civilian buildings were shelled by 122 mm cannons and 120 mm mortars, which were banned by the Minsk agreements. Two houses on Vernadsky Street (8 and 57) were hit by mortar shells. One of them was completely destroyed and the other one had damaged windows and walls.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/Zaitsevo20_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/Zaitsevo20_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The shelling of Zaitseve on 05\/20\/2018 on Vernadsky Street | Photo: Press center of JFO<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also on this day the Avdiyivka area near the water filtration station was shelled once again. Donetsk Water Filtration Station holds 5.8 tons of liquid chlorine used for water purification. Damage to chlorine tanks is dangerous and could leave about 500 thousand people on both sides of the contact line without water.<\/p>\n<h2>May 19<\/h2>\n<p>Zaitseve. 120mm mortar shells were fired at the houses of Zaitseve. The shelling came from the direction of the town of Holmovsky, from the territory controlled by the Russian hybrid army. House at Manuilsky Street, 100 was hit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/Zaitsevo19_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The shelling of Zaitseve on 05\/19\/2018 on Manuilsky Street | Photo: Press center of JFO<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>May 18<\/h2>\n<p>The village of Troitske (Luhansk Oblast), near Svitlodar.\u00a0Residential areas of the village were shelled with 122mm cannons. Two civilians were killed, and two others were seriously injured. They were all from the same family.<\/p>\n<p>Toretsk. Puzanova (formerly Sovkhozna) Street was shelled. As a result, a building with a family of 4 people inside was seriously damaged.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/33026518_1571174206341322_4185355010437021696_n-1024x576.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Shelling of Toretsk on 05\/18\/2018 on PuzanovaSstreet | Photo: Andriy Hrudkin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The location of the damage to the house on Puzanova Street allows for easy identification of the direction of the shelling:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/33040753_1572199692905440_5850601598752915456_n.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The video shot the next morning, May 19, near the house:<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.0';  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/andrew.grudkin\/videos\/1570252839766792\/?t=0\" data-width=\"978\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/andrew.grudkin\/videos\/1570252839766792\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/andrew.grudkin\/videos\/1570252839766792\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u0422\u043e\u0440\u0435\u0446\u043a. \u041f\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0435\u0434\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0438\u044f \u043e\u0431\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043b\u0430 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u043c\u0438 \u043a\u0440\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0435\u0433\u043e \u0434\u043e\u043c\u0430 \u043d\u0430 \u0421\u043e\u0432\u0445\u043e\u0437\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0432 \u043c\u043e\u0435\u043c \u0440\u0430\u0439\u043e\u043d\u0435.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/andrew.grudkin\">Andrey Grudkin<\/a> on Saturday, May 19, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>May 17<\/h2>\n<p>The city of Svitlodarsk (Donetsk Oblast). Artillery shells hit residential areas, among them the territory of School no. 11. At that time, there were about 370 students inside the school. Fortunately, the shell exploded outside and only knocked out the windows.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/Svitlodarsk_School.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The shelling of Svitlodarsk on 05\/17\/2018, School no. 11 on Molodizhny Boulevard | Photo: Channel 24<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kurtyumovka village (Toretsk Rayon, Donetsk Oblast). As a result of shelling 8 houses were damaged on Makarova and Trudova Streets.<\/p>\n<p>Zaitseve.\u00a0The town was shelled by 152mm and 122 mm cannons. The house at Vernadsky Street, 32 was completely destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Towns and villages in Yasinovata, Volnovakha, and Bakhmut Rayons were shelled. Four residential buildings were damaged on Stepna Street<\/p>\n<p>Shelling damaged 2 residential buildings on Shiyana Street in Mykolayivka in Volnovakha Rayon. In Avdiyivka, shelling damaged 2 houses on Dachna Street and Kolosova Street.<\/p>\n<p>Coverage of the war in Ukraine has almost completely disappeared from the pages of international media, however the war continues, and it affects not only military units. For the last four years, the Russian occupants have continued to shell civilian areas, targeting houses and schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8997\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"71\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>This publication was prepared specially for\u00a0InformNapalm.<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Translated by GEK, edited by Max Alginin<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>A link to the authors and our project is obligatory for any reprint or further public use of the material.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(Creative Commons \u2014 Attribution 4.0 International \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY 4.0\u00a0<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Repost\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/strong><strong>share with friends<\/strong><strong>!<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>For notifications about InformNapalm investigations follow us on\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/informnapalm24\/\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InformNapalm\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intense fighting continued for weeks across the entire front line in eastern Ukraine. 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Svitlodarsk, Horlivka, Donetsk, and Mariupol areas have been among the hot spots. The Russian hybrid army is not only trying to push against the Ukrainian forces but is also firing at civilian areas.\r\n\r\nDuring a week, the following areas were subjected to heavy shelling by Russian forces.\r\n<h2>May 21<\/h2>\r\nThe city of Toretsk (Donetsk Oblast), near Horlivka.\u00a0Ukrainska, Tsvetochna and Zaliznychna Streets were shelled by artillery. Some buildings were damaged. The Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation in Toretsk was shelled. At the time, 28 children were inside the Center. Luckily, there were no casualties, children were urgently evacuated from the building.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/uuzcjgJI4es\r\n\r\n<em>Video: Toretsk police evacuates children from the Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation<\/em>\r\n\r\nTown of Zaitseve (Donetsk Oblast), near Horlivka. During the shelling, a 60-year-old woman was injured, she was hospitalized with a blast injury.\r\n<h2>May 20<\/h2>\r\nZaitseve. Civilian buildings were shelled by 122 mm cannons and 120 mm mortars, which were banned by the Minsk agreements. Two houses on Vernadsky Street (8 and 57) were hit by mortar shells. One of them was completely destroyed and the other one had damaged windows and walls.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/Zaitsevo20_1.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/Zaitsevo20_2.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<em>The shelling of Zaitseve on 05\/20\/2018 on Vernadsky Street | Photo: Press center of JFO<\/em>\r\n\r\nAlso on this day the Avdiyivka area near the water filtration station was shelled once again. Donetsk Water Filtration Station holds 5.8 tons of liquid chlorine used for water purification. Damage to chlorine tanks is dangerous and could leave about 500 thousand people on both sides of the contact line without water.\r\n<h2>May 19<\/h2>\r\nZaitseve. 120mm mortar shells were fired at the houses of Zaitseve. The shelling came from the direction of the town of Holmovsky, from the territory controlled by the Russian hybrid army. House at Manuilsky Street, 100 was hit.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/Zaitsevo19_1.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<em>The shelling of Zaitseve on 05\/19\/2018 on Manuilsky Street | Photo: Press center of JFO<\/em>\r\n<h2>May 18<\/h2>\r\nThe village of Troitske (Luhansk Oblast), near Svitlodar.\u00a0Residential areas of the village were shelled with 122mm cannons. Two civilians were killed, and two others were seriously injured. They were all from the same family.\r\n\r\nToretsk. Puzanova (formerly Sovkhozna) Street was shelled. As a result, a building with a family of 4 people inside was seriously damaged.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/33026518_1571174206341322_4185355010437021696_n-1024x576.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<em>Shelling of Toretsk on 05\/18\/2018 on PuzanovaSstreet | Photo: Andriy Hrudkin<\/em>\r\n\r\nThe location of the damage to the house on Puzanova Street allows for easy identification of the direction of the shelling:\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/33040753_1572199692905440_5850601598752915456_n.png\" \/>\r\n\r\n<em>The video shot the next morning, May 19, near the house:<\/em>\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/andrew.grudkin\/videos\/1570252839766792\/?t=0\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h2>May 17<\/h2>\r\nThe city of Svitlodarsk (Donetsk Oblast). Artillery shells hit residential areas, among them the territory of School no. 11. At that time, there were about 370 students inside the school. Fortunately, the shell exploded outside and only knocked out the windows.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/05\/Svitlodarsk_School.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<em>The shelling of Svitlodarsk on 05\/17\/2018, School no. 11 on Molodizhny Boulevard | Photo: Channel 24<\/em>\r\n\r\nKurtyumovka village (Toretsk Rayon, Donetsk Oblast). As a result of shelling 8 houses were damaged on Makarova and Trudova Streets.\r\n\r\nZaitseve.\u00a0The town was shelled by 152mm and 122 mm cannons. The house at Vernadsky Street, 32 was completely destroyed.\r\n\r\nTowns and villages in Yasinovata, Volnovakha, and Bakhmut Rayons were shelled. Four residential buildings were damaged on Stepna Street\r\n\r\nShelling damaged 2 residential buildings on Shiyana Street in Mykolayivka in Volnovakha Rayon. In Avdiyivka, shelling damaged 2 houses on Dachna Street and Kolosova Street.\r\n\r\nCoverage of the war in Ukraine has almost completely disappeared from the pages of international media, however the war continues, and it affects not only military units. 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