Two civilians, including a child, have reportedly been killed in eastern Ukraine after a shell fired by the Ukrainian military hit a residential area.
The shell hit five people in the town of Gorlovka, killing a man and a 12-year old girl, senior rebel commander Eduard Basurin told Russia’s Rossiya24 channel.
However, according to the Emergencies Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, the victims were a man and an 11-year-old boy.
Both sources stated that a woman was wounded in the shelling and two children, who didn’t suffer any serious injuries, were retrieved from the rubble of the house.
According to recent estimates by the UN human rights office, over 6,000 people have been killed and over 15,000 wounded in eastern Ukraine during a year of fighting. However, the real numbers could be much higher. At least one civilian was killed in Donetsk a week ago, after an army shell hit an apartment building amid intense fire on rebel positions.
