This was reported by the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire.

"Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction ... the settlement of Makeevka (Kirov district): eight shells of 155 mm caliber were fired," the statement says.

Earlier, as a result of the shelling of the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a pensioner from the village of Ozeryanovka died.

Over the past 24 hours, seven civilians were killed in the DPR, 24 were injured during shelling by Ukrainian troops.