LUGANSK, May 5. /TASS/. Four shelling attacks by Ukrainian troops were reported in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) during the past day, one civilian was killed, the LPR mission to the Joint Control and Coordination Center said on Thursday.

"Four shelling attacks were reported from the settlement of Pervomaisk and Irmino," it wrote on its Telegram channel. As a result of the shelling, a man born 1944 was killed in Irmino and two houses were damaged in Pervomaisk.

Following a dramatic deterioration of the situation in Donbass on February 17, Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 21 announced a decision to recognize the sovereignty of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s. The treaties of friendship, cooperation and mutual aid were signed with their leaders. On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in response to a request for help by the heads of the Donbass republics. He stressed that Moscow had no plans of occupying Ukrainian territories, but aimed to demilitarize and denazify the country.