Two civilians are reported to have been wounded near the contact line in the so-called "grey zone" in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, according to the State Border Service of Ukraine.
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine reported that the residents of the village of Pikuzy, controlled by "DPR" militants, demanded the immediate withdrawal of armed men and their weapons from residential areas.
The UN monitoring mission in May-August recorded the deaths of 26 civilians in Donbas, while another 135 people were wounded, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Since the beginning of 2016, nearly 586,000 retired and elderly people residing in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine have lost access to their pensions as a result of verification procedures introduced by the Government of Ukraine, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
Some 10,090 people were killed in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, including 2,777 civilians, and at least 23,966 people were injured, according to the Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine (February 16 to 15 May 15, 2017) from UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, released on Thursday, June 13.
Thirty-six civilians were killed in Donbas hostilities in eastern Ukraine in the past three months, according to an UN report released on Tuesday, June 13.
Three civilians have been injured in a booby-trap blast in a Ukrainian-controlled area in Luhansk region, according to Luhansk Regional State Administration's press service.
Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on the settlement of the Donbas crisis, Ambassador Martin Sajdik says that the number of civilians killed in the east of Ukraine January through May 2017 soared by 120% year-over-year, according to the Belarussian telegraph agency BELTA.
One civilian killed and another wounded in an explosion due to triggering a trip-wire actuating device planted by the Russian-backed militants, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Defense Ministry posted on Facebook.
Russia's hybrid forces have attacked residential areas of the Ukrainian-controlled town of Avdiyivka in Donetsk region, six private houses have been damaged, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters.
Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine Alexander Hug has reported about civilian casualties in the war in eastern Ukraine, saying 21 civilians were killed and 95 were injured since the beginning of the current year, according to an UNIAN correspondent.