MOSCOW. Feb 13 (Interfax) - Three children have been killed as a result of shelling in the town of Horlivka in the past 24 hours, Eduard Basurin of the Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) told reporters on Friday.
"Three children, a one-year-old boy and two girls, aged 6 and 12, were killed in Horlivka when their house came under artillery fire yesterday," he said.
All in all, seven civilians have been killed and another 15 have been injured in the territory of the self-proclaimed republic over the past 24 hours, he said.