On August 19, 2014, the town of Makeyevka was subjected to several artillery attacks, which resulted in damages to the municipal preschool educational institutions: Childcare Center No. 119 of the general development type and Childcare Center No. 122 of the combined type, the Central Polyclinic and the Children’s Clinical Center, Public Library named after A.N. Bezhenova, Young Naturalists’ Station, municipal educational institution School No. 15. The buildings of the Yasinovsky Coke-Chemical Plant and residential buildings of the Kirovsky and Tsentralno-Gorodsky districts were also damaged. In total, 72 residential buildings were destroyed.
This investigation will consider the episode of that day, resulting in damages to the Cheryomushki residential area, not far from the Makeyevka railway station. Here, as a result of a massive artillery shelling that occurred at about 13:00, five civilians were killed, several people were wounded.
It follows from the above that on August 19, 2014, at about 13:00, the Cheryomushki residential area in the town of Makeyevka underwent artillery fire from the 9K51 Grad MLRS. The shells flew in a direction from north-north-west to south-south-east (azimuth 335 degrees).
As a result of the analysis of news videos and information from the Internet, it was found that the 2nd Rocket Battery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine could be located in the sector from which the shelling was carried out. This unit is part of the 93rd Independent Mechanized Brigade of the UGF under the command of Colonel Oleg Mikhaylovich Mikats.
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