'Miracle' Escape From Ukrainian Army Shelling In Ukraine Rebel City

[Purveyor]

DONETSK (UKRAINE) (AFP) -

Liliya had only just nipped out when the shells tore through her apartment block in Ukraine's rebel bastion Donetsk early Sunday.

"It's a miracle that I am still alive," the 62-year-old resident of Sportyvna Street told AFP.

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"My flat is gutted. If I had still been there I would have been killed."

Leninsky district, just south of downtown Donetsk, has been hit regularly by artillery bombardments from the Ukrainian army camped out a few kilometres (miles) away. On Sunday it was the turn of those living on Liliya's street.

There are no apparent military targets in the immediate vicinity, but around a kilometre (half a mile) away there is a former student hostel occupied by rebels.

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http://www.france24.com/en/20150208-miracle-escape-shelling-ukraine-rebel-city/

Why is it that the Ukrainian army sees fit to bomb residential areas with no military targets one has to wonder?

[Duckhunter935]

1. becuase the "pro-Russians"

tend to use those areas to fire grad salvos and move out before the return fire.