DPR – Ukrainian Army Shells Boarding School In Yasinovataya With 120mm Mortar Shells
On the morning of 21 September 2021, the Ukrainian army opened fire with 120mm mortars on the northern outskirts of Yasinovataya in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), damaging a gas pipeline, a gas-fired water heating station and a boarding school with 63 children and 53 staff inside. Fortunately, no one was injured.
While the Russian parliamentary elections are now over, the Ukrainian army’s terror bombing of civilians in Donbass continues.
For example, on 21 September 2021 at 7.16 am, the Ukrainian army fired 15 120 mm mortar shells at the northern outskirts of Yasinovataya from its positions near Novoselovka. Several of these shells fell on a residential area, including a gas-fired heating station and boarding school No. 14.
As can be seen on this map, the shelled area is far from the front line and the positions of the DPR People’s Militia. Moreover, this boarding school already existed during the Ukrainian period and the Ukrainian army could not be unaware of its location. So this is again a deliberate war crime by the Ukrainian army.
The heating station and the gas pipeline feeding it were damaged by shrapnel, as were the windows and facade of the boarding school, where 63 children and 53 staff members were present at the time of the shooting. Luckily the boarding school staff managed to quickly take all the children to the school’s bomb shelter, and no one was injured.
Photos provided by the DPR representation in the JCCC:
Photos showing the damage to the heating station
Photos showing the damage to boarding school no. 14
Following the fire triggered by the damage to the gas pipeline, firefighters went to the site, and had to work under shelling from the Ukrainian army. As you can hear on this video, shells fell not far from where the firefighters and journalists were:
This is how the Ukrainian army celebrates the International Day of Peace: by shelling a boarding school in Yasinovataya with 120 mm mortar shells, endangering the lives of 63 children.
- Source : Donbass Insider
