Russian separatist forces took advantage of the shelling as a means to publicly humiliate several Ukrainian prisoners of war.

[3] On 22 January 2015 at 09:00 Eastern European Time (UTC+2) on the Kuprin Street public transport stop "Zavod Dongormash" was shelled.

[9] As of 16:00 on 22 January, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) published data obtained from the Donetsk morgue, stating 8 dead.

The agency claims that the shelling involved representatives of terrorists who opened fire from residential areas of Donetsk.

[11] Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Anton Gerashchenko, said on his personal Facebook page that Ukrainian aviation was not used and that the distance of the security forces to the place of shelling was considerable.

[15] As the OSCE monitoring group reported, at 11:00 it analyzed two funnels and established that "the projectiles were fired from the northwest direction."

[17][18] Despite the fact that Donetsk does not belong to the territory of the Russian Federation, on 22 January, Russia opened a criminal case.

[19] Based on the photos and videos taken at the scene of the shooting, several independent investigations were conducted: Livejournal user timberhead[20] and author of the blog Ukraine@war DajeyPetros.

[21][6] Both researchers based on the position and shape of the craters, as well as thanks to a good shot by Christopher Miller, who captured a close-up of the sinkhole next to a phone with a compass,[22] state the direction of shelling from the north-northwest, which coincides with the conclusions of the OSCE.

[20][21] DajeyPetros concludes that the size of the hole in the ground, which is smaller than a phone, indicates the type of ammunition - an 82 mm mine.

In her Twitter microblog, she noted that "Ukrainian citizens are paying a high price for the occupation and brutal aggression.