A part of a HIMARS MLRS missile hit a room in her apartment in Stakhanov. Part of the shell pierced three floors from above and fell on the bed a meter from the pensioner.

Earlier it was reported that one person was killed and two wounded as a result of the shelling of the city in the Luhansk People's Republic by the Ukrainian army from the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system. On the morning of May 9, the DPR representative office in the JCCC said that the Ukrainian Army had launched MLRS strikes at the Kiev and Kuibyshev districts of Donetsk.