One killed, 15 hospitalized in Slovyansk - regional administration
KYIV/MOSCOW. May 5 (Interfax) - One person has been killed and another 15 hospitalized with gunshot wounds during a security operation in Slovyansk, Donetsk region, on Monday, according to the regional administration's health care department.
These are the latest reports received by 6 p.m. (7 p.m. Moscow time) on Monday.
"Medical aid during the antiterrorist operation is provided by the relevant units of security forces," the statement said.
The preliminary reports suggest that between 12 and 15 people were injured, the Donbas self-defense headquarters told Interfax earlier.
Also, four people were killed and about 30 injured near Slovyansk on Monday, the Interior Ministry told Interfax earlier.
Meanwhile, Slovyansk self-defense forces claim that Ukrainian military helicopters opened fire against houses in the village of Raigorodok near the town.
"The shooting has resumed. The military helicopters carried out several attacks against the residential sector of the village of Raigorodok," a spokesman for the self-defense headquarters told Interfax by phone.
Other sources were not immediately available to confirm this information.
Raigorodok is located northeast of Slovyansk, on the Kazennyi Torets river, close to where it flows into the Siverskyi Donets River. It has a population of about 4,000.
The Torets river was where the bodies of Horlivka councilor Volodymyr Rybak (Batkivshchyna Party) and Kyiv polytechnic student Yuri Popravko were found near the village on April 19.
We are clarifying the number of fatalities near the village of Semyonovka, where a battle was held earlier on Monday, the militia spokesperson said.
"We are receiving reports about dead civilians. Overall, there will be more than 20 people (dead)," the spokesman said.
Earlier the fighting in Semyonovka was reported by the Rossiya 24 television channel. "Militiamen sustained great losses in the battle," it said. "They claim that up to 80% of the self-defense personnel were killed in this battle," a Rossiya 24 correspondent said, who cited the militiamen who said that "up to 20 civilians may have been killed" in Semyonovka.
There has been no formal confirmation of these reports from the Ukrainian law enforcement authorities.
