“The child, wounded during the shelling of the VFU Makeevka, died from his injuries,” the statement says.

The victim born in 2010 was hospitalized with a shrapnel wound, fracture and traumatic shock.

The DPR office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) previously reported that 19 civilians, including four children, were injured as a result of Ukrainian military shelling of Makiivka.