Amid Russian shelling on Saturday, 19 сwere killed and 73 were injured in Donetsk region, Head of the regional military-civilian administration Pavlo Kyrylenko has said.

"On February 26 (as of 17:00), as a result of Russian shelling, 19 civilians were killed, 73 people were injured," he wrote on his Facebook page.

In particular, Kyrylenko said that 15 dead and 5 wounded (1 child) in Volnovakha, 4 dead, 9 wounded (1 child) in Sartana, 58 wounded in Mariupol, 3 wounded in Sopyne, and 1 wounded in Pivdenne.