Ukrainian shells hit apartment blocks in Donetsk - official
DONETSK, Ukraine. June 9 (Interfax) - Ukrainian artillery attacked Donetsk on Tuesday, hitting apartment buildings on one of the city's thoroughfares, an official said.
"Buildings on Kremlivsky Avenue were under fire. Fortunately, there are no fatalities. But there is large-scale damage as a result of direct hits," the head of the administration for the city's Kuibyshevsky and Kyivsky districts, Ivan Prikhodko, told Interfax.
Earlier on Tuesday evening, the city administration said artillery and small-arms fire was heard in the city currently. "People living in Kyivsky, Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts report that the sound of small-arms and heavy-gun fire can be heard," the administration said in a statement.
The Joint Center on Control and Coordination of issues related to the ceasefire regime and the stabilization of the situation, also said on Tuesday that Donetsk was being shelled currently, and that Oktyabrsky village within the city, the villages of Spartak and Zhabycheve and the new terminal at the Donetsk airport were under fire.
"At the moment there is sluggish firing in progress with a frequency of one shot per minute. Oktyabrsky was attacked by 120-millimeter mortars and self-propelled artillery from the [village] of Opytne," a Joint Center spokesman told reporters.