Dodging a constant assault of Russian missiles – the war weary keep fighting in Ukraine’s blood-soaked east
The IndependentThe missile aimed at the mayor’s office took an estimated 64 seconds to fly 55 miles and detonate in shrapnel and flames after being fired by Russian forces. Two weeks ago, the Russians carried out a “double tap” attack on another Donbas town, Pokrovsk, in which nine people were killed and 82 injured. Did the people who fired the rocket even think for one minute about what they were doing?” The sheer number of lives lost during Russia’s 18-month invasion is overwhelming. In April last year, two months after the start of the invasion, the railway station in Kramatorsk was hit by two Tochka-U missiles fired from Shakhtarsk in the Russian-backed separatist “Donetsk Republic”. It’ll get even older when the new mobilisation laws come in as they say’s going to happen,” says 24-year-old Yuri Melnyk from Slovyansk.
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