Four civilians killed, ten injured in Donetsk in past 24 hours – city council

Donetsk City Council has reported the deaths of four civilians and shrapnel injuries to more than ten persons in Donetsk over the past day.

A report posted on the Donetsk City Council Web site said the artillery shelled the Kyivsky district on Monday night.

Tensions persisted on Tuesday morning, the report continued.

Luhansk Region State Administration Chairman Hennadiy Moskal, in turn, said in a report posted on his Web site that the situation in Luhansk region had also worsened.

There was a series of artillery attacks on land controlled by Ukrainian servicemen and fatalities were reported, he said.

Mortars were fired at a National Guard roadblock near Bakhmutka on Tuesday morning, no one was hurt, he said.

On Monday, militants shelled the 92nd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces position near Vesela Hora in Slovianoserbsk district. Four Ukrainian servicemen were hurt.

Moskal confirmed the attack on Ukrainian positions near the Schastia heating and power plant. He said three Ukrainian servicemen suffered injuries, in one case severe.

The report mentioned five police officers being wounded in the shelling by militants of the location of a combined unit of the Ternopil region police department in the town of Popasna.