It is noted that State Duma deputy Viktor Vodolatsky, who is responsible for the humanitarian mission of United Russia in the LPR, along with volunteers, arrived with humanitarian aid to the residents of the settlement, who were hiding in the church of St. George the Victorious. 

“During a humanitarian mission, volunteers and local residents were subjected to mortar fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

There were no casualties," the statement said.

Earlier it became known that two people were killed as a result of the shelling by the Ukrainian military of Novobakhmutovka in the DPR.

It was also reported about 13 dead as a result of the shelling of the city of Stakhanov in the LPR by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 

During the attack, 19 houses, three educational institutions, as well as the building of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were damaged.