The United Nations Security Council condemned the killing of 15 civilians in Thursday's trolleybus stop shelling in Donetsk, Ukraine and called for an objective investigation.

UNITED NATIONS, January 23 (Sputnik) – The United Nations Security Council called for an objective investigation of Thursday's trolleybus stop shelling in Donetsk, Ukraine, and condemned the killing of as many as 15 civilians.

In a Thursday's press statement following the shelling, the members of the Security Council "underlined the need to conduct an objective investigation and bring perpetrators of this reprehensible act to justice."

The UN Security Council condemned in the "strongest terms" the killing of as many as 15 and injuring of more than 20, as a result of shelling of a public transport stop in the city of Donetsk on January 22.

The members of the security council "underlined the need for full implementation of the Minsk protocol of 5 September and the Minsk memorandum of 19 September, and welcomed the Berlin Joint Statement of the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, the Russian Federation and Ukraine on 21 January 2015."

The trolleybus stop was struck by two shells fired from the north-west of the city by either a mortar or an artillery piece, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine said earlier Thursday.

The Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) suggested that the attack could have been conducted by a Ukrainian sabotage group, while Kiev accused the DPR militia of carrying out the shelling.