DONETSK, March 14. /TASS/. March 15 has been declared a day of mourning in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) following a missile attack on central Donetsk killing 17 and wounding 28 people, DPR’s leader Denis Pushilin said on Monday.

"Today, Ukrainian Nazis committed a terrifying terror attack against civilians in Donbass. They used a Tochka-U missile system firing a cluster-type missile at central Donetsk. <…> Dear fellow countrymen! Tomorrow, March 15, is declared a day of mourning. I offer condolences to the families of those killed and wish the soonest recovery to those wounded," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

The missile strike was delivered in the daytime, when there are many people in the streets, he noted, adding, that according to the latest data 17 people were killed and 28 more, including a child, were wounded.

The Tochka-U missile fired by Ukrainian troops were downed earlier on Monday. Its fragments hit the ground in central Donetsk. According to Pushilin, the missile carried a cluster bomb and there might have been much more casualties if it had not been downed.