Horlivka, Ukraine Diocesesan administration office damaged in artillery shelling

Horlivka (an industrial city in the Ukraine’s Donetsk region), August 25, 2015

    

On August 25, 2015, at about 4 AM the Horlivka city center was bombarded with shells. Several five-storied buildings and two comprehensive schools were heavily damaged, reports the Horlivka and Sloviansk Diocese’s official website.

    

The Horlivka diocesan administrative office was damaged from a blast wave and fragments of the shell exploded right outside the fencing: the fencing itself along with the windows, the entrance doors and the facade of the building were damaged.

According to the preliminary information, several residents of the neighboring apartment blocks were taken to the city’s medical institutions with injuries of varying severity and contusions.

Pravoslavie.ru

8/26/2015

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