He said this at a meeting of the UN Security Council.

Nebenzya drew attention to the fact that at the moment a massacre is taking place in the city with the use of weapons from the West.

“Ukrainian punishers, incited by Western countries, are trying to literally raze the city to the ground,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Earlier it became known that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on Donetsk.

According to preliminary data, there are casualties among the civilian population.