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 - four in Horlivka and three in Donetsk - and another 15 have been injured in the territory of the self-proclaimed republic over the past 24 hours, he said.
"Shelling has disrupted telephone services and power supply in Yasynuvata. Four mines are not operating in Donetsk - Lidiyevka, Abakumov, Skochynsky and No. 17," Basurin said.
He accused Kyiv of failing to observe the peace memorandum signed in the Belarusian capital Minsk on February 12.