“According to our figures, nine people were killed and nine others were injured after the explosion at Trolley bus Number 3’s terminus stop,” Basurin said.
Earlier, Donetsk News Agency citing authorities from the eastern Ukrainian self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic reported that 13 people had been killed and dozens were injured in the mortar strike.
“According to our preliminary information, [shell] fragments damaged a trolley bus and a trolley bus, there are injured, and, possibly, dead among civilians,” the spokesperson said.
The DPR Ministry of Defense suggested that the attack could have been conducted by a Ukrainian sabotage group.
Despite a ceasefire agreement reached during talks in Minsk on September 5, 2014 and a “silence regime” proclaimed in the region on December 9, clashes between Kiev forces and independence supporters of Donbas continue in southeastern Ukraine with both sides repeatedly accusing each other of violating the truce.
