Donetsk, Dec 13 – DAN. Nearly 170 people have been killed in Donbass in 2019 by Ukrainian aggression against the region, the DPR Ombudswoman's office said.

"From January 1 to December 12, 165 people were killed, of those 156 were service memebers, six civilian women and three civilian men."

In the same period 218 people have been injured, including 73 civilians, five of them minors.

Overall, 4,894 DPR residents have been killed in the conflict including 81 children.*ot