Donetsk, Jul 7 — DAN. Makeyevka residents are bringing flowers and toys and are also lighting candles in the Shakhtyorsky neighborhood where three children were killed in a Ukrainian artillery strike on Wednesday, town administration officials said on Thursday.

Makeyevka authorities expressed their condolences to the families of the killed children.

Two boys, aged 17 and 8, and a seven-year-old girl were killed in Kiev gunmen’s strike at the Shakhtyorsky neigbordhood on Wednesday evening. The children were at a playground at the moment of the strike. Over the past 24 hours, seven civilians were killed and 28 were wounded in the Donetsk People’s Republic by Ukrainian army strikes.*jk