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Donetsk occupation authorities report 'largest shelling attack since 2014'

Alexey Kulemzin, the Moscow-installed mayor of Donetsk, said that the city center was hit by the “largest shelling attack since 2014” on Thursday morning. Other regional occupation authorities reported that nine people were injured, including one child.

According to Kulemzin, the city was shelled 40 times from Grad multiple rocket launchers. Citing eyewitness accounts, he claimed that there were “direct hits on apartment buildings” on multiple streets. He also said that a university campus and a kindergarten were hit.

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