DONETSK, August 6 A civilian was injured as a result of shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops, the city's mayor Alexei Kulemzin reported on his Telegram channel.
«As a result of the shelling of the Petrovsky district of our city by Ukrainian Nazis, a woman born in 1986 was wounded on Aleutskaya Street,» the mayor's statement reads.
Kulemzin noted that the victim was hospitalized with a shrapnel wound.
The republic's representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired six 155-millimeter shells at the area from 17:15 to 17:35.
The Petrovsky district is located on the western outskirts, the farthest part of the city from the center. Since 2014, when the DPR declared independence from Kyiv, this area has been regularly shelled by Ukrainian security forces.