On December 17 and 18 Ukrainian troops tried to reconquer the Donetsk airport. The Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has recorded 56 shelling attacks on populated localities and people’s militia positions in eastern Ukraine launched by Kiev’s security forces over the past 24 hours. The aftermath of shelling in Donetsk - in photo gallery by TASS.
The aftermath of shelling in Donetsk
On December 17 and 18 Ukrainian troops tried to reconquer the Donetsk airport
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On December 17 and 18 Ukrainian troops tried to reconquer the Donetsk airport. Photo: Smoke rises over the new terminal of Donetsk airport in Eastern Ukraine, 15 January, 2015
© AP/Mstyslav Chernov Photo: An area near the Donetsk airport where fighting continued between the Ukrainian government's troops and soldiers of the Donetsk People's Republic
© Nikolai Muravyev/TASS Photo: Damage inside a branch of the Metro chain of supermarkets near the Donetsk airport
© Nikolai Muravyev/TASS Photo: Damaged Putilovsky Bridge near the Donetsk airport
© Nikolai Muravyev/TASS The Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has recorded 56 shelling attacks on populated localities and people’s militia positions in eastern Ukraine launched by Kiev’s security forces over the past 24 hours
© AP/Manu Brabo Photo: A building hit by the Ukrainian Army artillery in Donetsk
© AP/Manu Brabo Photo: A Ukrainian woman looks through a broken window at their flat after it was hit by Ukrainian artillery in Donetsk
© AP/Manu Brabo Photo: Women sit in a shelter during an exchange of artillery fire between DNR forces and the Ukrainian army in Donetsk
© AP/Manu Brabo Photo: The damaged Orthodox church dedicated to St Nicholas the Wonderworker in central Donetsk
© Nikolai Muravyev/TASS One of shells fired by Ukrainian forces hit a hospital in Donetsk. A doctor was wounded
© Alexander Khudoteply/TASS The blast broke windows on the fourth and fifth floors and damaged the heat system in the building. Photo: A man at a hospital in Donetsk damaged during a shelling attack
© Nikolai Muravyev/TASS