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.
In the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian army has breached the ceasefire 42 times in the DPR, including 19 times in Donetsk and four in Horlivka, the self-proclaimed republic's Defense Ministry said.
Basurin accused Kyiv of failing to observe the peace memorandum signed in the Belarusian capital Minsk on February 12.
For its part, the press center of the DPR's government and People's Council said, citing the press service of the self-proclaimed republic's Emergency Situations Ministry, that 15 civilians had been injured in Horlivka and another 13 in Donetsk over the past 24 hours. The number of casualties given by the press center coincides with the figures mentioned in other reports.