Donetsk, Feb 3 – DAN. Ukrainian army shelled the previous night Kievskiy avenue in Donetsk's Kievskiy district. Six MLRS Grad rockets hit the area.

Several rockets exploded in a yard in front of a residential house in Shakhterskaya square – windows were shattered, walls and a car parked nearby sustained damage. Last time Shakhterskaya square came under Kiev's fire in winter of 2015.

The situation along the contact line has deteriorated dramatically. Ukrainian forces fired 1,268 MLRS, artillery, tank gun rounds since the previous evening, targeting Donetsk, Yasnovataya, Dokuchaevsk outskirts, Gorlovka and southern DPR areas.

Motel bus terminal in Kalininskiy district in eastern Donetsk was among Kiev's targets last night; the sound of a massive explosion was heard across the whole city. Two civilians were killed, 13 people sustained injuries, two children among them. *ot