Donetsk, Nov 25 – DAN. Ukrainian forces shelling left four civilians dead and one injured over the week, a DPR defense official said.

"Ukrainian terrorists killed  four civilians  and injured one," DPR Operations Command deputy commander Colonel Eduard Basurin told a news briefing at the Donetsk News Agency on Friday.

According to the Command, 12 houses were damaged in Staromikhailovka and Alexandrovka, Kirovskiy and Petrovskiy districts of Donetsk, Yasinovataya, Dokuchaevsk and Sakhanka.

Ukrainian forces shelled Donetsk People’s Republic more than 6,049 times over the past week.