Two civilians killed, eight wounded in Russia's shelling of Donetsk region

Russian troops killed two residents of the Donetsk region and wounded eight others on Thursday, March 16.

Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional military administration, said this in a post on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"On March 16, the Russians killed two residents of the Donetsk region: in Toretsk and in the village of Krasnohorivka. Another eight people in the region were wounded," he wrote.

It is currently impossible to establish the exact number of casualties in Mariupol and Volnovakha.

On March 16, Russian troops shelled the Donetsk region with artillery and Uragan multiple rocket launchers, killing one person and leaving seven others injured, including a foreign volunteer.