“DPR Prime Minister Vitaly Khotsenko was wounded during the shelling of a hotel in Donetsk, there is no threat to his life,” TASS quoted Akhverdiyeva as saying.

She noted that the persons accompanying Khotsenko were injured.

Also, during the shelling of the hotel, Dmitry Rogozin, the former general director of the Roscosmos state corporation, the head of the military advisers group Tsarskie Wolves, was wounded.