Forty-six settlements come under enemy fire in JFO area

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Russian troops have opened fire on 46 settlements in Luhansk Region and Donetsk Region over the past day, leaving four civilians killed and nine injured.

The relevant statement was made by the Joint Forces Task Force on Facebook, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

In addition, 89 civilian objects were damaged and destroyed in Russia’s shelling, including 85 residential houses, regional specialized boarding school, cinema, coke and chemical plant and motor depot.

The pyrotechnics experts of the Ukrainian State Emergency Service detected and neutralized 47 explosive items in such districts of Donetsk Region as Pokrovsk, Volnovakha, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut.

Over the past day, about 1,500 civilians have been evacuated from the area of hostilities.

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