One killed and three injured in Russian drone attack on evacuation team in Donetsk Oblast – photo

Anastasia Protz, Olha Kyrylenko — 20 March, 10:10
One killed and three injured in Russian drone attack on evacuation team in Donetsk Oblast – photo
Yevhen Kaplin. Photo: Facebook

A woman has been killed and three people have been injured after Russian forces used a drone to strike a vehicle belonging to the Proliska humanitarian mission in the settlement of Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka in Donetsk Oblast on the morning of 20 March.

Source: Yevhen Kaplin, head of the Proliska humanitarian mission, on Facebook

Details: Kaplin reported that the evacuation team working in the settlement had been attacked.

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"It is a bad morning in Donetsk Oblast. An evacuation team of ours in Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka has been attacked by a Russian drone. Sadly, people are known to have been injured and a woman has been killed. We are currently doing everything to get them to hospital."

фото Євгена Ткачова
фото Євгена Ткачова
Photo: Yevhen Kaplin

Background: In 2024, Ukrainska Pravda journalists witnessed a strike by a Russian first-person view (FPV) drone on a car belonging to Yevhen Tkachov, a worker with the Proliska humanitarian mission from the UN Refugee Agency, while he was distributing humanitarian aid in Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast.

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