The Moscow Times is collecting all the latest breaking news and developments in Russia's deadly attack on Ukraine.
Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine sentenced an employee of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to 13 years in jail on treason charges, Russian news agencies reported Monday.
"A panel of judges found Dmitry Pavlovich Shabanov guilty... and sentenced him to 13 years in prison," the RIA Novosti news agency reported, quoting the Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LNR).
Shabanov, who was detained in April, is accused of passing confidential information to foreign intelligence services.
Thirteen people were killed in a shelling attack on the megacity of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine’s rebel- controlled region of the same name, originalpro-Russian authorities said Monday.
Footage participated on social media showed bodies bestrew outside girdled by ambulances.
" original information shows that as a result of corrective shelling. in the Kuibyshevskyi quarter( of Donetsk), 13 civilians failed. The number of people injured is being determined," the Moscow- backed mayor of the megacity wrote in a social media statement carried by Russian news agencies.
Donetsk, with apre-war population of around 1 million people, has been incompletely controlled by Moscow- backed secessionists since 2014.
It was captured after road demonstrations ousted Ukraine's Kremlin-friendly leader.
The allegation that Ukraine had carried out a strike in Donetsk and the risk couldn't be singly vindicated.
The Russian service on Monday meanwhile said it had targeted Ukrainian forces in several frontline regions, claiming to have foisted both military casualties and damage to military tackle.
It said it had launched" high- perfection" strikes against Ukrainian service installations in the southern Ukraine megacity of Zaporizhzhia had destroyedU.S.- supplied ordnance.
The Ukrainian administration meanwhile said that Russian strikes across regions near fighting had killed 10 people and wounded 22 people.
Moscow- installed authorities in Ukraine's southern Kherson region on Monday ruled out the possibility of an" irruption" by Kyiv's colors on Monday.
The commentary by Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of Kherson's Russia- installed administration, come days after a strike on Kherson's indigenous government structure killed three people and injured 10. Kyiv has not claimed responsibility for the strike.
" A response( to the strike) will be given in the near future.. There are no prerequisites for the Nazis and Western mercenaries to enter the home of the Kherson region," Stremousov wrote on the Telegram messaging app, echoing the Kremlin's unwarranted claim that Ukraine's leadership has been taken over by Nazis.
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