Four people were killed as a result of shelling of the city of Siversk in Bakhmut district of Donetsk region on Sunday evening, head of the Regional Military Administration Vadym Filashkin said.

"The city was shelled by rocket artillery last night — now it has been established that four men from 36 to 86 years old died from this shelling," Filashkin wrote on Telegram on Monday.

Earlier, he reported on one resident of Donetsk region who died on Sunday under shelling – in the village of Ocheretyne in Pokrovsky district. In total, according to Filashkin, over the past day, the Russians fired at settlements in Donetsk region 12 times, damaged more than 20 residential buildings, including five multi-storey ones.