“Over the past 24 hours, more than 15,000 citizens have crossed the border to enter Russia through checkpoints located in the Rostov region,” TASS reports with reference to the press service of the border department of the FSB of Russia in the region.

Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian military shelled Donetsk with the use of French self-propelled artillery CAESAR caliber 155 mm.

Over the past day on the territory of the DPR, as a result of shelling by the Ukrainian army, ten people were killed, and another 17 citizens were injured.