Missile event in Donetsk Oblast, Kurakhove area, Ukraine on Mon 13th March 2023

The enemy focused fire on 11 settlements. Civilians were wounded. The towns of Avdiivka, Krasnohorivka, Bakhmut, Kostiantynivka, Sloviansk, Kurakhove, and the villages of Karlivka, Severne, Tonenke, Lastochkino, and Novoselivka I came under the gun. The occupiers attacked with aircraft, S-300, Grad and Uragan MLRS, artillery, and tanks. Thirty-one civilian objects were destroyed and damaged, including 21 residential buildings, the administrative building of the town council, a factory shop, a store, a power line, gas pipelines, a railway track, and a car. Avdiivka survived seven air strikes, shelling from Grad, artillery and tanks. A plant shop was damaged, no information on casualties was received. The enemy fired an S-300 missile at Sloviansk, hitting critical infrastructure. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties. Russians fired four Uragan rocket launchers at Kostyantynivka. Three apartment buildings and 12 private houses, gas pipelines, a shop and a car were destroyed. There is an injured person. Occupants continue to destroy Bakhmut with rocket artillery. The city withstood 7 shelling, an administrative building and 3 apartment buildings were damaged. Civilians were wounded. We have injured people in Krasnohorivka as a result of hostile attacks. The police and the Security Service of Ukraine opened criminal proceedings under Article 438 (violation of the laws and customs of war) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. With the help of the police, 176 more people have been evacuated, bringing the total number of people evacuated since the start of the mandatory evacuation to over 50,200, including 6,694 children and 2,418 people with disabilities. Fenix Insight: Munitions visible in the source images are the rocket motor of a 220 mm artillery rocket and the inner warhead body of a 220 mm dispenser rocket (9M27K or 9M27K1). The munition fragments suggest a 5V55 series missile.