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Ukraine troops shelling DPR village after OSCE observers leave, says local official

According to the republic’s defense ministry, Ukrainian troops have violated truce 46 times over the past 24 hours
OSCE observer at a site of a shell crater in the village of Telmanovo Mikhail Sokolov/TASS
OSCE observer at a site of a shell crater in the village of Telmanovo
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MOSCOW, June 5. /TASS/. Ukrainian troops have resumed the shelling of Telmanovo district of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic shortly after observers from the OSCE mission left, the head of the regional administration, Sergey Ivanov, reports.

According to Ivanov, they used heavy weaponry to shell the settlement of Grigoryevskoye. "Nobody has been injured as of yet," the Donetsk News Agency quoted him as saying.

He said residents of a neighborhood remained without electricity supply.

In earlier reports, Ivanov said a four-year-old boy was killed and four civilians were wounded in the shelling overnight to June 5.

According to the republic’s defense ministry, Ukrainian troops have violated truce 46 times over the past 24 hours.

They used multiple rocket launcher systems three times, and heavy artillery was used 21 times. A ministry official said 16 DPR settlements had been damaged in the shelling.