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Rockets hit Kiev military HQ and town, many wounded - president

Published 10/02/2015, 12:22
© Reuters. Ukraine's President Poroshenko reacts during the 51st Munich Security Conference at the 'Bayerischer Hof' hotel in Munich

KIEV (Reuters) - Rocket strikes hit Ukraine's military headquarters in the east of the country and a nearby residential area on Tuesday, wounding many army personnel and civilians, President Petro Poroshenko said.

A Reuters photographer saw a dead woman's body after one rocket attack in Kramatorsk, a town about 50 km (30 miles) from front-lines and from where Kiev's military directs its campaign against pro-Russian separatists.

"Twenty-five minutes ago, the main headquarters of our anti-terrorist operation took a strike from a Tornado rocket. The headquarters took this strike, but a second strike was carried out on residential areas of Kramatorsk," Poroshenko told parliament.

"There is information about wounded service personnel. There is information about a significant number of wounded among civilians," he added.

The government-controlled Donetsk regional administration said the rockets had been fired from the rebel-controlled Horlivka area, which is about 50 km away from Kramatorsk.

© Reuters. Ukraine's President Poroshenko reacts during the 51st Munich Security Conference at the 'Bayerischer Hof' hotel in Munich

Regional police said at least one civilian had been killed and six wounded in the strike on Kramatorsk.

(Writing By Richard Balmforth; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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