“Unfortunately, as a result of the Ukrainian aggression, ONE serviceman of the people’s militia of the DPR was killed, ONE more was seriously injured, TWO were shell-shocked.

We offer our condolences to the families and friends of our defenders," the message on the Telegram channel of the People's Militia of the DPR reads.

On the morning of February 21, the representative office of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) of the ceasefire regime reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had shelled the village of Staromikhailovka with prohibited projectiles.

On February 6, the People's Militia Department of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic also announced the death of a serviceman on the line of contact in the Donbass.