“Information was received about the wounding of a civilian - a man born in 1962.

as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.

Yasinovataya village," the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) said in a statement.

The victim was diagnosed with a mine-explosive injury: the pensioner received shrapnel wounds to the head.

He was hospitalized in the Yasinovatsky central district hospital.

Earlier, the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, said that in the city of Bakhmut of the DPR, Ukrainian nationalists equipped firing positions and sniper points on the upper floors of apartment buildings.