Kiev forces shell populated area of Makeyevka, one person wounded

A dweller of the eastern Ukrainian city of Makeyevka has been wounded in the shelling of the city by the Ukrainian military, head of the local administration Yury Pokitenlitsa said on Wednesday.

“We have one person wounded, a man aged about 50. He is now in the city hospital number 2, his condition is stable,” the Donetsk news agency quotes him as saying.

The mayor also noted that the incident had been registered in the city’s Chervonogvardeisky district. “Two streets have been affected, a total of eight houses have been destroyed,” he added.