Seven children injured in barrage by Kiev's troops.

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At least seven children have been injured and a children's clinic damaged by artillery barrages Ukrainian troops launched against residential areas of Slavyansk, Donetsk Republic. This and Kiev's earlier attacks on nearby schools and housing areas have caused authorities in Slavyansk to begin evacuating young children from the city:

7 children injured in Slavyansk as Ukrainian army shells residential area

Seven children were hurt as the Ukrainian military shelled the city of Slavyansk, a stronghold of the protesters, in the country’s South East on Friday night, Pavel Astakhov, Russia’s ombudsman for children’s rights, said. “According to the public health department of the Donetsk regional administration, seven children were injured by bullets and shrapnel during the bombardment by the Ukrainian army,” Astakhov wrote on Twitter.

Self-defense forces in Slavyansk say the Ukrainian military shelled the town’s residential area during the night, with one of the shells hitting a children’s hospital. A children’s clinic was also damaged by artillery fire, the ITAR-TASS news agency reports.

On Wednesday, a school in the Artema residential district of Slavyansk was bombarded and one of the shells blasted through the roof of the assembly hall. Fatalities were only avoided because teachers and pupils managed to find shelter in the basement of the school building. In his interview with the Rossiya 24 channel, Astakhov said that an online action called ‘Save Donbass Children’ (#savedonbasschildren) has been initiated via social networks.

“I want to appeal to the leaders of all states around the globe to urge [Ukraine’s president-elect], Petro Poroshenko, to save the children of Donbass,” the ombudsman stressed.

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Read more at: http://rt.com/news/162604-chidren-injured-east-ukraine/