One killed, two wounded in shelling of Avdiivka - Ukrainian police official

KYIV. May 25 (Interfax) - One man was killed and two women gravely wounded as a results of two days of shelling of Avdiivka in Donetsk region, chief of the Interior Ministry department in Donetsk region Vyacheslav Abroskin has announced.

"There are no steady communications with the town. The town remains without electricity or water supplies. One young man was killed and two women severely wounded," he wrote on Facebook on Sunday.

He noted that the operation of the local coke factory was suspended as a result of the shelling.

"In two days over 70 shells hit the territory of the plant. There are no army units near the plant. If there had been any, one could understand the massive shelling of this particular territory," the police official added.