MOSCOW, March 30. /TASS/. Two militiamen from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) were killed in the shelling in Donetsk’s Petrovsky district, a source in DPR law enforcement agencies said on Wednesday.

"At night, as a result of a sniper fire, two militiamen, born in 1997 and 1980, died," Donetsk News Agency quoted the source as saying.

The DPR defense ministry said earlier today that Kiev forces shelled the outskirts of Donetsk and Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and Sakhanka village in DPR’s south at night. Ukrainian forces used artillery of 152mm caliber, mortars of 82mm and 120mm caliber and infantry fighting vehicles.