KIEV, Ukraine— “Dozens” of civilians were killed in a shelling attack Monday on a convoy of refugees trying to flee war-torn eastern Ukraine, a top Ukrainian official said. Both the government and the rebels traded blame for the attack.
Col. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s National Security Council, told reporters Monday he did not have an exact death toll but said dozens of people died, including children, in the rebel shelling.
Andrei Purgin, a self-proclaimed deputy prime minister of the Donetsk separatists, insisted the attack was not by his forces.
“If someone was killed, it wasn’t us but the Ukrainian military,” he …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
