“From the 36th brigade (Ukrainian Armed Forces) ... opened fire from 120- and 82-mm mortars at the settlements of Leninskoye and Kominternovo, firing eight mines,” RIA Novosti quotes a representative of the agency.

According to him, the Ukrainian security forces also fired at the Zaitsevo settlement on the outskirts of Gorlovka with heavy machine guns, because of the shelling, the house caught fire.

Earlier, the DPR accused Kiev of falsifying shelling by the militia.