The drone attack left eight medical workers dead and ten people injured in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said
Eight medics were killed and ten other people injured when Ukrainian drones struck a medical facility in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.
The attack reportedly happened on March 10 at around 03:40 Moscow time when four fixed wing UAVs launched by Kiev deliberately targeted a stationary medical institution in the DPR, where more than 130 patients and around 50 medical staff were present.
According to the MOD, nine of the injured are medical workers.
The ministry said that the “terrorist strike by the Kiev regime” had “grossly violated international humanitarian law and basic human morality,” stressing that the facility “has never been used for military purposes” and was a purely civilian medical institution.
In another Ukrainian strike on the DPR this week, four civilians, including a six-year-old boy, were killed and twelve more injured. In Russia’s Zaporozhye Region a Ukrainian drone attacked a passenger bus carrying children from a sports school after it stopped at a gas station, injuring several boys and their coach, according to local authorities.
Moscow has repeatedly said that Kiev is attacking civilians because it cannot halt Russian advances on the battlefield. Ukrainian officials claim that inflicting sufficient economic damage will force Russia to abandon its objectives in the four-year Ukraine conflict. In response to the attacks against Russian civilians, Moscow has targeted Ukrainian energy infrastructure that it says supports kamikaze drone production for long-range strikes.
