A high-voltage power line to Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant was damaged by Russian forces not long after electricity supplies were restored to the facility, grid operator Ukrenergo said in a statement on Monday. Stay with TOI for all updates:R<\/span><\/p>\n Russia declared on Monday that an attack by Kyiv’s forces on the stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine had left 20 people dead, accusing Kyiv of committing a “war crime”.<\/p>\n Moscow accused Ukraine’s army of firing a Tochka-U missile at a residential area in Donetsk, in one of the most serious attacks on the city since Russia sent troops into Ukraine over two weeks ago.<\/p>\n Rebels, who have controlled the city since 2014, had earlier said fragments from a rocket they shot down had left 16 civilians dead.<\/p>\n “Twenty peaceful residents have died,” Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.<\/p>\n “Another 28 people including children were seriously injured and hospitalised.”<\/p>\n “The use of such weapons in a city where there are no firing positions of the armed forces,” Konashenkov added, “is a war crime.”<\/p>\n Earlier Monday Donetsk officials said more than a dozen people had been killed after they shot down a projectile and remnants landed in Donetsk’s centre.<\/p>\n Donetsk health officials later released updated figures matching those announced by the Russian defence ministry.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n