The Ukrainian army targeted Luhansk with American weapons.
Sources and local authorities in Luhansk province in eastern Ukraine say that the Ukrainian army targeted the residential areas of the city of “Svatofe” this morning with 3 American Himars missiles.
So far, no report has been published on the amount of casualties and damage of this missile attack.
With the start of Russian military operations in Ukraine in March of last year, America and Europe, in addition to imposing extensive sanctions against Moscow, have provided a large amount of military weapons to the Ukrainian army.
On Monday, the representative office of the Donetsk People’s Republic in the joint monitoring and coordination center for cases related to war crimes in Ukraine announced that the Ukrainian forces bombarded the Voroshilovskaya area in the Donetsk Republic with 10 Grad missiles.
As Sputnik’s reporter in the region reported, several people were injured and two buildings, including a church, were set on fire.
The republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the regions of Zaporizhia and Kherson held a referendum to join Russia from September 23 to 27 (October 1 to 5), and the majority of voters agreed to join Russia.
On February 24 (5th of Isfand 1400), the President of Russia announced in a televised speech that in response to the request of the Donbass (Donetsk and Luhansk) republics in eastern Ukraine, as well as in order to “de-Nazify and demilitarize Ukraine”, the order to start “special military operations” in Ukraine to protect the people who have been abused and massacred by the Kiev regime for eight years, and to cleanse Ukraine of “neo-Nazis”.