The Donetsk Commerce University has been partly destroyed. A large blast has reportedly hit central Donetsk. The source of the explosion was said to be in Shevchenko Boulevard. According to initial reports the central library and University of Commerce have been destroyed.
The city centre of the capital of the Donetsk People’s Republic had been relatively calm in spite of the ongoing fascist war of aggression against Donbass.
RIA Novosti reports that an explosive device went off causing the damage. According to a Donetsk People’s Republic spokesman there are no casualties.
A representative from the Donetsk People’s Republic has said it was a “terrorist attack”.
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An explosion has rocked central Donetsk with officials of the Donetsk People’s Republic saying a library and the University of Commerce have been partially destroyed.
A spokesperson for the DPR’s administration described what happened as a “terrorist act,” RIA Novosti reports.
“Preliminarily, judging from the nature of the damage, this was an explosive device,” the head of the DPR’s emergency services Aleksey Kostrubitsky told journalists, as cited by RIA Novosti.
Earlier, a spokesperson for the DPR administration described what happened as a “terrorist act,” saying that the university’s auditorium and part of the library were destroyed.
The university has been cordoned off, with police and emergency services working there.
“More precise data will be obtained after an expert committee has completed its work and given more accurate conclusions. The commission that will investigate this incident has already been set up,” Dmitry Trapeznikov, the vice-premier of the DPR, told journalists.
Meanwhile a source in DPR’s law enforcement was saying that the university building could have been destroyed because of recent heavy rains.
The DPR, along with the Lugansk People’s Republic, is involved in an ongoing conflict with the Nazi Ukrainian government which began in 2014, when a wave of deadly protests led to an armed coup that ousted the elected government in Kiev. The new government sent troops to the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, which were unwilling to recognize the coup-installed authorities, leading to a bloody conflict that has so far claimed over 10,000 lives, according to UN figures.
Although a shaky ceasefire is now in place, both sides have accused one another of shelling and OSCE monitors have recorded numerous ceasefire violations.
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