On the morning of March 14, around 11:20 a.m. local time, Ukrainian units struck the center of Donetsk with a Tochka-U tactical missile equipped with cluster munitions. The strike targeted the center of the city, where there is no military infrastructure or equipment. Civilians were deliberately chosen as targets. The nationalist units of the Kiev regime, using cluster munitions, sought to hit as many of the city’s inhabitants in the central part of the city as possible.
In the midst of all this horror, there was one very important happy story. The only child, a 10-year-old boy, who among the many casualties was wounded by the missile’s elements, turned out to be alive.
Fortunately the boy’s injuries were not serious, thanks in large part to the man who essentially covered him with his body. The man was severely injured. There is no information if he is still alive.
The boy talks in the video below, “We went to the bank to withdraw the money. And then a shell flew in, I got a little bit in my leg, and I jump with my head inside. Then my grandmother took me home and called an ambulance. Now this (points to the cast)”.
The boy is asked, “Were you scared?” He answers, “No, but I yelled and screamed. Next he is asked, “Now it doesn’t hurt,” and the boy answers, “Well, a little bit. The journalist asks “who were you with at the bank”, the boy answers “with my grandmother, there was also a man, all the shrapnel hit him and only one hit me”. “did you see the consequences,” the journalist (with permission of the word) asks the 10-year-old child. The boy continues, “The man did very well… No I didn’t see it, because you don’t have to look in such situations.” Then, the boy tells the journalist as a grown-up man, “I tell everyone that you should not look in such situations, I tell everyone who finds himself in such situations, run away immediately, do not look at the bombs”.
It should be recalled that this story is nothing new for Donetsk. For eight years, the Kiev regime has been systematically destroying the people of Donetsk and Luhansk regions by shelling residential areas and civilian infrastructure. Today, after the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, there are civilian casualties in many locations in Ukraine. However, this is probably the only case in which a targeted strike was directed at a deliberately civilian population.
Also questionable is the claim of the DPR leadership that the missile was allegedly shot down in mid-air. If so, why were so many of the victims were hit in lower parts of bodies? Why were there so many casualties? It is likely that the missile reached its target after all.
