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BREAKING reports massive shelling of Kramatorsk Slavyansk with severe civilian casualties and collapsing apartment buildings
The hospital in Slavyansk is on fire.
REPORTS Direct communication with Slavyansk stopped about 0320 a.m. This morning
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AMERICAN Journalist being shelled in Central Kramatorsk by the Kiev Army. Kiev troops are shelling the civilian areas with Mortars and heavy artillery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDM0ki40QEE&app=desktop
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BREAKING NEWS Kramatorsk city center is getting hit by mortars. The explosions started at 2225 local time.
I am here with Christian B. Malaparte and 10 other people, In the basement of the Kramatorsk hotel in the center. It seems like the mortars hit within 50-200 meters of the hotel. I am not sure but the hotel may have been hit.
So far there has been two waves of motars with a break in between I am not sure how long each wave lasted, it felt like an eternity. After the first wave we thought it was over and we went out to try to document what we can. We got out side and down the block a bit and then hell broke loose motors where whistling over heads, explosions, shrapnel flying about and large chunks of metal hitting the ground all around us as we ran back to the hotel basement.
Scratch that the third wave just happened it was shorter then the rest only around 5 explosions very close. so that makes somewhere between 35-45 Explosions around us.
It is a shame that many innocent civilians just lost there lives I wont be sleeping tonight so first light headed out to check the damage and to the morgue. Hopefully the mortars are done for the night