Deadly blast hits market in Russia-held Ukraine city

A market and shopping district in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine has been hit by shelling. Officials there blamed Ukraine saying the attack had killed twenty-seventy people and wounded twenty-five others.

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(Picture: People remove debris at a food market following, what local Russian-installed authorities say, was a Ukrainian military strike in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk. Credit: Alexander Ermochenko/REUTERS)