“As a result of the shelling from the VFU, a man born in 1966 who lives in the village of Veseloe, 28 Naberezhnaya Street, received a fragmental wound to the soft tissues,” the Donetsk news agency reported.

Earlier it was reported that a group of journalists, including a RIA Novosti correspondent, came under mortar shelling from the Ukrainian security forces on the outskirts of Donetsk, no one was hurt.