“Tonight, the air defense of the People’s Militia of the DPR in the sky over Donetsk prevented another attempt by the Ukrainian command to inflict fire damage using a missile of the Tochka-U tactical missile system,” the report says.
The location of the fall of the wreckage and the damage caused are currently under investigation.
Earlier, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case after the mass death of the civilian population as a result of a missile attack on Kramatorsk.
According to the latest reports, at least 30 civilians, including children, were killed in the shelling.
At least 100 more people were injured.
Later, the Ministry of Defense stated that an analysis of the radius of destruction of the warhead of the Tochka-U rocket and the position of the hull of its tail section confirm that it was launched from the south-western direction from Kramatorsk, where one of the divisions of the 19th missile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was located at the time of the strike. .