A journalist was killed in a car shelling attack on the Donetsk airport on Sunday, Hromadske TV said.

As a senior chief of the Ukrainian team of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) in Donetsk Colonel Andriy Lischynsky said, under various sources two local journalists were inside the car.

"Under preliminary report, an antitank missile hit the car. One journalist killed. Another correspondent jumped out of the car and managed to survive," he said.