One person was killed and 21 injured during the day during AFU attacks in the DNR
One person was killed and 21 injured on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) during the day due to attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was reported by the head of the DNR Denis Pushilin on January 20.
"In the settlement of Verkhnetoretskoye of Yasinovatskiy municipal district, a man born in 1952 was killed when an explosive object was dropped from an AFU drone on a passenger car," Pushilin wrote in his Telegram channel.
In addition, the AFU used barrel artillery when shelling the Central City district of Gorlovka, nine women and two men were injured. In the Nikitovsky district of the same city, Ukrainian militants dropped an explosive object from a drone, young men born in 2004 and 2003 sustained moderate injuries.
In addition, on the Svetlodarsk-Novolugansk highway there was an attack by an AFU attack drone, eight employees of the Donbassgaz company were injured. In addition, the Ukrainian military shelled the Soviet district of Makeyevka and Volnovakha with shells of HIMARS multiple rocket launcher system of 227 mm caliber. A school in Makeyevka, a hospital in Volnovakha and seven apartment buildings were damaged. In addition, a technical school and an art school were damaged in Horlivka.
During the day, the AFU carried out more than 20 attacks, using HIMARS, 155 mm caliber artillery and attack drones.
Earlier in the day Pushilin said that the injured on the highway Svetlodarsk - Novolugansk workers were on their way to the repair facility, they are women born in 1972, 1964, 1985 and men born in 1986, 1980, 1965, 1964, 1964. All of them were given medical assistance.
On the same day, four drones of the AFU shot down while attempting to attack Melitopol, Zaporizhzhya region. There were no casualties as a result.
The AFU has been shelling Russian territories on a daily basis amid a special operation to defend Donbass, the start of which Moscow announced on February 24, 2022.
