Artillery fire overnight killed three civilians and injured five more in eastern Ukraine’s besieged pro-Russian rebel stronghold Donetsk, city authorities said on Thursday.
The mortar blasts damaged three apartment blocks and five houses in the Budyonivsky district in the southeast of the million-strong industrial city, the city council said in a statement.
Shelling also destroyed two houses in a village on the western outskirts of the mining hub but no casualties were reported, the statement said.