LUGANSK, August 13. /TASS/. Medics from the Lugansk Regional Clinical Children’s Hospital have performed a surgery on a 12-year-old girl injured in a strike by Ukrainian forces on Lisichansk in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR).

LPR Health Minister Natalia Pashchenko told TASS that the doctors extracted a piece of shrapnel from the girl’s spine.

"The doctors of the Lugansk Regional Clinical Children’s Hospital have operated on a girl wounded in Lisichansk. The child had a perforating wound of the left lung, a fragment of shrapnel got stuck in the spine and it was possible to extract it. The girl is still in surgery. They are getting ready to transfer her to intensive care," the medical official said.

She noted that the republic’s Health Ministry is considering sending the girl to Moscow for treatment.

The Ukrainian armed forces delivered a strike on Lisichansk on Tuesday morning. As a result of a shell hitting an intercity bus, two people were killed and over 30, including a child, sustained wounds of various degrees of severity.