Three civilians killed, 10 injured in Ukrainian attacks on DPR in past day

Military operation in UkraineThree civilians killed, 10 injured in Ukrainian attacks on DPR in past day A residential property, three civilian infrastructure facilities, special equipment and diesel locomotives were also damagedDONETSK, September 17. /TASS/. Three civilians were killed and 10 others injured in Ukrainian armed forces attacks on municipalities in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) over the past day, DPR Head Denis Pushilin said on his Max channel. "Three people were killed, while another ten civilians in the republic, including four children, were injured today in attacks by strike drones of Ukrainian armed formations and explosive objects detonations," he wrote. According to Pushilin, two men and a woman were killed in attacks on trucks on the Yalta-Urzuf highway in the Mangushsky district. In Gorlovka's Central City district, a boy was gravely injured, while a girl born in 2019, another girl born in 2009 and two men sustained moderate wounds. A man was also injured in an attack on a passenger car on the Yenakiyevo-Uglegorsk highway in the Yenakiyevsky district. In Maryinka, two young men sustained moderate injuries after an explosive object detonated. Near Olkhovatka in the Shakhtersky district, two road workers suffered moderate injuries in a strike-drone attack. "A residential property, three civilian infrastructure facilities, special equipment, diesel locomotives, passenger cars and trucks were damaged in the districts of Gorlovka and Yenakiyevo, as well as the Mangushsky, Telmanovsky, Yasinovatsky and Shakhtersky municipal districts," Pushilin added. 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