The post-occupation Russian-appointed “mayor” of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, said that at 7:00 a.m. on December 15, the city center suffered “the most massive strike since 2014.”
According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 40 rockets from BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers. The state agency RIA Novosti reports five victims. The intersection of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Avenue and Universitetskaya Street, Shkolny Boulevard, as well as Naberezhnaya Street and the Covered Market area came under shelling. Photos of burned-out cars and several damaged buildings are published on social networks.
Also, propaganda channels, including the Military Observer covering military conflicts, claim that one of the shells hit the dome of the Transfiguration Cathedral.
The propaganda publication Komsomolskaya Pravda published a video of the aftermath of the strike:
Read more about the war in Ukraine in The Insider’s daily report on December 14: “Russian fighters are being sent to Belarus, Ukraine is waiting for Patriot air defense systems from the United States, the Russian military wear chain mail. What's going on at the front .