“As for the shelling: yes, we have them everywhere, along the entire line of contact, including the airport,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying on the air of the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
Earlier, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the situation in the self-proclaimed republic had become critical over the past day.
The people's militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic reported that as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, an electrical substation and the central city hospital in Donetsk were damaged.