Donetsk city hall bombing adds to string of setbacks for the Kremlin

A pro-Moscow official in the occupied Ukrainian region of Donetsk claimed that the mayor’s office in the separatist-controlled territory had been hit by Ukrainian rockets on Sunday.

“According to incoming information, today at 7:37 [6:37 a.m. in CET] there was a direct hit by enemy ordnance on Donetsk’s city administration building,” Alexey Kulemzin, who has served as Donetsk’s mayor since 2016, said in a statement on his Telegram channel.

Kulemzin later published several videos and images of the purported attack’s aftermath, showing a badly damaged building amid sparse flames and...