REUTERS
Russian-backed militants have shelled the town of Avdiyivka from 120mm-caliber mortars. Preliminary reports say one man has been killed, two women have been wounded, Head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's main department in Donetsk region Vyacheslav Abroskin wrote on Facebook.
"There were 27 direct hits in territory of Avdiyivka coking and chemical plant and a train depot. A diesel locomotive caught fire after a shell had hit it. The fire was put out by plant workers," he wrote.
A body of a man, born in 1989, was found inside the damaged locomotive.
What is more, two women, both born in 1956, were wounded. All the people are employees of the Avdiyivka plant.
According to Abroskin, militants stopped firing and a team of Avdiyivka investigators left for the scene.
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and eight soldiers were wounded in the anti-terrorist operation zone in Donbas in eastern Ukraine in the last day.