Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced this on Telegram.

“As a result of a shell hit, an outbuilding of a private residential building caught fire, a 70-year-old woman died.

Now all operational services and the head of the district are in place.

The fire brigades have already begun to put out the fire,” he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin previously called it a priority to prevent shelling of Russian border regions from Ukraine.