30 Sep 2016 11:00

Some 9,000 homes damaged in Donetsk since start of conflict - local authorities

DONETSK. Sept 30 (Interfax) - As many as 2,000 apartment buildings and 7,000 privately owned houses have been damaged in Donetsk as a result of strikes since the conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine, the city's acting Mayor Igor Martynov told reporters on Thursday.

"More than 7,000 privately owned houses and 2,000 apartment buildings in Donetsk have been damaged or destroyed in the course of the conflict," he said.

Most of the houses were destroyed in 2014, in the winter of 2015 and in the summer of 2016, he said.