(Reuters) -A child was killed and two people injured when a Ukrainian artillery shell hit a two-storey building in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, the Russian-appointed head of the region, Denis Pushilin, said on Wednesday on his Telegram channel.
The Donetsk region had been partly under the control of pro-Russian separatists since 2014 until Moscow announced last year that it was annexing the province.
Russia, which early last year launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine that it called a “special military operation”, says Ukrainian forces shell the Russian-controlled parts of the Donetsk region on a daily basis.
Separately, the Interfax news agency cited Russian-appointed officials in Ukraine’s southerly Zaporizhzhia region as saying four civilians had been killed and two wounded by Ukrainian shelling in the village of Trudove, about 15 km (9 miles) east of the town of Tokmak.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region on Ukraine’s northeastern border, said one person had been killed by Ukrainian shelling in the border village of Gorkovsky.
The Belgorod region has suffered frequent artillery and drone attacks in the last few months, and in May saw an armed cross-border incursion by a raiding party purportedly consisting of Russian nationals.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Bernadette Baum)