Parts of the Ukrainian armed forces launched a missile attack on Luhansk with cluster munitions, and a fire started at the site of the attack. This was announced on his Telegram channel by the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik.
„Ukrainian nationalists launched a new rocket attack on Luhansk with cluster munitions, as a result of which a fire started,”, he wrote.
Pasechnik noted that employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, law enforcement officers and doctors went to the site of the shelling. According to him, the information about the destruction and the victims is being clarified.
Earlier, operational services reported to TASS that according to preliminary data, there were casualties as a result of the strike by Ukrainian troops on Luhansk.
Explosions erupted again around 00:00 Moscow time.
Ambassador plenipotentiary of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Rodion Miroshnik, suggested that the renewed shelling of Luhansk was carried out on the territory where the rescuers were working after the previous strike by the Ukrainian armed forces on Monday evening.
„Residents report two more heavy arrivals in the same area of Luhansk, a second strike cannot be ruled out at the site where rescuers are working to remove the consequences of a recent rocket attack,” Miroshnik wrote on his Telegram channel.< /p>