Ministry of Health of the DPR: 117 children died in the republic in eight years

“According to my information, 117 children have died in the territory of the DPR and the Donetsk region over the years, these are children under 18 years old.

So, out of 117 children, 35 have died since February of this year, ”he told RIA Novosti.

According to the interlocutor of the agency, most of the children who died this year were victims of unexploded ordnance. 

According to the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC), as a result of the shelling of Donetsk and Makeyevka on May 29, four people were killed and 20 more were injured.

Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR, said earlier that the Ukrainian military had increased the intensity of shelling of Donetsk and Gorlovka, firing more than 100 shells at them.