“As a result of the shelling of the Kievsky district at the intersection of Artyom and Tamansky Avenue, one civilian was killed, one person was injured,” he wrote on Telegram.

Kulemzin added that as a result of the shelling of the city, a balcony collapsed in one of the houses on Universitetskaya Street.

Earlier, an officer of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic, Andrei Marochko, said that the death toll due to the shelling of Alchevsk by the APU militants had increased to nine.