Child wounded in Kiev artillery strike at LPR settlement dies - Stakhanov mayor

The 10-year-old child wounded in a Ukrainian artillery attack on the settlement of Almaznaya in the Lugansk People's Republic has died in hospital without regaining consciousness; the civilian death toll has risen to four, said head of the Stakhanov town administration Sergey Zhevlakov.

 

On May 28, Ukrainian armed formations fired three high mobility artillery rocket system missiles at  Alamaznaya, a satellite settlement of Stakhanov, killing three civilians and wounding another seven including a child. One house was ruined, and seven single-family homes, a gas pipe and a power line were damaged. 

 

“To our deepest regret, sad news has come from Lugansk. The ten-year-old Daniil who was critically wounded in the artillery attack on Almaznaya by Ukrainian armed formations, has died in the Republican hospital without regaining consciousness on Friday morning,” Zhevlakov wrote on Telegram. “When children get killed, it’s not just terrible and painful, it’s heart-breaking. My sincere condolences to the boy’s parents.”

 

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The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014.  The peace talks failed to reach tangible results due to Kiev’s position to settle the conflict by force.

 

President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation  on February 24, 2022 to protect Donbass residents from Ukrainian aggression. Prior to that, LPR and DPR Heads Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin asked the Russian leader to provide military assistance.

 

The Lugansk People’s Republic acceded to Russia on September 30, 2022 following the unification referendum.*i*ie