DONETSK, August 9. /TASS/. Two civilians died and seven others were injured in Ukraine’s drone attacks on the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) during the day, the DRP’s head, Denis Pushilin, said.

"Two people were killed and seven other republic’s residents were hurt today in Ukraine’s drone attacks today," he wrote on messaging app Max.

According to Pushilin, one person died after a Ukrainian drone hit a railway engine in the Volnovakha-Karan section. The other fatality was reported as a result of a drone attack on a car on the Novorossia highway near the village of Myshevatoye.

As a result of attacks, three residential houses, four civilian infrastructure facilities, a commuter bus, six trucks, two passenger cars and municipal services’ vehicles were damaged in Mariupol, Gorlovka, Dokuchayevsk, Khartsyzsk, and in the Volnovakha, Velikonovoselkovsky, Mangushsky, and Shakhtersky municipalities.