“Information was received about the wound on March 7 as a result of the shelling of the VFU, a man born in 1970.

from the territory of the Volnovakha region controlled by the NM of the DPR,” the representative office of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) said in a statement.

The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, previously announced the death of 26 civilians since the beginning of the escalation in the Donbass.

On March 6, the republic's People's Militia reported that militants from the Azov national battalion shot down a column of civilians who were trying to leave Mariupol along the humanitarian corridor in the direction of Novoazovsk.