DONETSK, September 10 – RIA Novosti. The death toll rose to three, one person was injured, in the bomb attack on the Kievsky district of Donetsk. reported At the center of the DPR defense.

“According to preliminary data, as a result of the shelling of Ukrainian armed formations in the Kievsky district of Donetsk, three people were killed and one civilian was injured,” the headquarters’ Telegram channel said.

Donetsk Mayor Aleksey Kulemzin said that a civilian was killed and another injured in a bomb attack on a market near the train station in the city’s Kievsky district.

The Kyiv district of Donetsk is located in the northern part of the city. Here is Shakhterskaya Square, Kyiv Prospekt, railway station, Donbass Arena football stadium. Artem Street, the main artery of the city, also ends here. Since 2014, when the DPR declared independence from Ukraine after a coup there, the area has been regularly bombed by the UAF. The airport, which was devastated as a result of months of fighting between the besieged Ukrainian army and the Donetsk militia, which raided their positions, is considered to be the northern outskirts of the region.

Russia has been conducting military operations in Ukraine since February 24. Vladimir Putin described his mission as “protecting people who have been subjected to eight years of bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime”. According to him, the ultimate goal is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that guarantee Russia’s security.

The Russian army, together with the forces of the DPR and LPR, completely occupied the territory of the Luhansk People’s Republic and a significant part of Donetsk, including Volnovakha, Mariupol and Svyatogorsk.