The Ukrainian government and pro-separatist rebels accused each other of hitting a bus carrying refugees in eastern Ukraine on Monday with rocket fire.
"A powerful artillery strike hit a refugee convoy near the area of Khryashchuvatye and Novosvitlivka. The force of the blow on the convoy was so strong that people were burned alive in the vehicles - they weren't able to get themselves out," military spokesman Anatoly Proshin told Ukrainian news channel, stating that the rocket fire had come from rebel lines.
Denying any responsibility over the attack however, the Deputy Prime Minister of the 'Donetsk People's Republic' said:
"The Ukrainians themselves have bombed the road constantly with airplanes and Grads. It seems they've now killed more civilians like they've been doing for months now. We don't have the ability to send Grads into that territory."
"A powerful artillery strike hit a refugee convoy near the area of Khryashchuvatye and Novosvitlivka. The force of the blow on the convoy was so strong that people were burned alive in the vehicles - they weren't able to get themselves out," military spokesman Anatoly Proshin told Ukrainian news channel, stating that the rocket fire had come from rebel lines.
Denying any responsibility over the attack however, the Deputy Prime Minister of the 'Donetsk People's Republic' said:
"The Ukrainians themselves have bombed the road constantly with airplanes and Grads. It seems they've now killed more civilians like they've been doing for months now. We don't have the ability to send Grads into that territory."