One DPR militiaman killed in shelling, another one injured
DONETSK. Oct 8 (Interfax) - The territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) was shelled 231 times in the past 24 hours; one militiaman was killed in a shelling and another one injured, Eduard Basurin, senior official at the DPR Defense Ministry, said.
"The Ukrainian forces violated the ceasefire regime 231 times in the past 24 hours, including 206 times when they used such weapons as prohibited under the Minsk Agreements," Basurin said at a press briefing on Saturday.
The total of 34 mortar shells was fired on Yasynuvata, 48 on Staromykhailivka and the same quantity on Trudovski, 110 on Oleksandrivka, which was also hit by 9 artillery shells. Five mortar shells were released on Zaitseve.
"One soldier of the DPR army was killed and another one injured during the shelling of our positions by Ukrainian combatants," Basurin said.
