DPR: Ukrainian drone attack led to the 5-year-old child’s death in Donbass

The people’s militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic reported the death of a child as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian drone.

Reported by RIA Novosti.

“The militants of the 59th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, following a criminal order … used an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with an improvised explosive device,” said a spokesman for the department.

It is noted that the attack was carried out on a residential area in the village of Aleksandrovskoye, where at the time of the attack there were two civilians in the yard.

“As a result of the criminal actions of Ukrainian militants, a child born in 2016 died and a local resident was wounded of varying degrees of severity, who was taken to a hospital, where she was provided with all the necessary medical care,” the People’s Militia added.

Earlier, the DPR reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had deployed military equipment in residential areas.