On 10 February 2015, at least nine civilians were killed and another 35 injured in a rocket attack on the city of Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine. Eight Ukrainian soldiers were also killed and 29 injured as a result of the shelling of the military headquarters at the airbase near Kramatorsk. Residential buildings, the city hospital and the children’s hospital also came under fire.
Report prepared by International Partnership for Human Rights in the framework of the Civic Solidarity Platform.
Supported by a grant from Open Society Foundation
The International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) field mission in Ukraine dispatched a special field mission team to investigate the circumstances of the attack and its aftermath. Team members interviewed witnesses and victims, gathered evidence and examined the crime scene. The findings of
the mission are outlined in this report.
Cover photo by Christopher Miller for Mashable: Woman in her thirties lies dead in one of
Kramatorsk residential districts that came under shell fire on February 10, 2015, Kramatorsk,
Ukraine