15:02 04.06.2014

Donetsk railroad reports mass damage to facilities in Krasny Lyman, wound of local surgeon

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Administrative, production and social facilities of the Krasny Lyman railroad junction sustained considerable damage following airstrikes on June 3.

Krasny Lyman railroad hospital was damaged the most by airstrikes - intensive care, clinical, surgical unit buildings were damaged, roofs and walls were destroyed, windows and doors knocked out, operation rooms, laboratory, medical devices and equipment sustained significant damage, the Donetsk railroad press office said on Wednesday.

Krasny Lyman station surgeon Vasyl Shistka sustained a serious fragment wound to the head and is in a critical condition. Three patients were wounded.

The airstrike damaged administrative buildings and outbuildings of Krasny Lyman track maintenance train, platforms and rails.

Due to this seven trains were cancelled in the schedule.

On June 3 special forces reported the result of the forceful operation in the Donetsk region to acting Ukrainian President, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksandr Turchynov.

"The north of the Donetsk region was fully cleared today, strongholds and camps of militants were destroyed in that region and their main fortified sector in the town of Semenivka was seized, and control was taken of the town of Krasny Lyman," Turchynov said, quoting a report of the operation commanders.

The presidential Web site also said that servicemen had started blocking the Ukrainian-Russian border in the northern and eastern sectors of the Luhansk region.

The biggest militants units were destroyed on Tuesday, "which gave the possibility to free central Donbas in the near future," Turchynov said.

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