In today's Russian shelling in the Donetsk region in the east of Ukraine, five people were killed, officials announced, Reuters reports.
Three people were killed and four were injured in the town of Kostyantinovka, Donetsk Oblast Governor Vadim Filashkin said, while two men in their 50s were killed in shelling near the town of Torecko, about 20 kilometers southeast.
In a post on the Telegram social network, Filashkin said that three men between the ages of 24 and 69 were killed and that the attack on Kostjantinovka damaged a multi-storey block, an administrative building and a shop. Three more people were slightly wounded and received medical attention, he said.
Suspilna public television quoted Anastasia Medvedev, a spokeswoman for the Donetsk prosecutor's office, as saying that the fourth person injured was a 57-year-old woman who suffered a shrapnel wound and a head injury, according to Reuters.
Suspilna TV quoted Medvedev as saying that in the second shelling, 52- and 53-year-old men were killed in the immediate vicinity of the town of Torecko.
Kostjantinovka, which was an industrial town of about 70.000 people before the war, saw many residents leave as the front line drew closer during the 30-month Russian invasion.
That city is regularly hit by missiles, bombs and artillery.
In August, the authorities announced the forced evacuation of families with children from the city due to the danger posed by Russia's progress.
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