This handout picture released on February 19 by the press service of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in an unknown location of Ukraine. (Image: AFP)
Local officials said the civilian was killed in an attack on Novoluganske, a settlement 35 km north of the eastern rebel stronghold Donetsk.
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- Last Updated:February 21, 2022, 23:32 IST
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A Ukrainian civilian died on Monday in a shelling attack on a government-held village, officials said, with the incident coming as fears were rising of an imminent Russian invasion.
Local officials said the civilian was killed in an attack on Novoluganske, a settlement 35 kilometres (25 miles) north of the eastern rebel stronghold Donetsk.
Meanwhile, two Ukrainian soldiers died Monday and three received wounds in a shelling attack on a frontline village that came with fears rising of a nearing Russian invasion of its western neighbour.
Ukraine’s national police said the two soldiers died in Zaitseve, a village 30 kilometres (18 miles) north of the rebel stronghold Donetsk, near to where a civilian died in another attack Monday.
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