“As a result of the shelling, an opponent of our positions killed one defender of the republic,” the Donetsk News Agency quoted him as saying.
Also in the west of Donetsk, two houses were damaged as a result of mortar shelling.
The DPR said a day from the Ukrainian armed forces recorded 26 attacks.
Earlier in the DPR declared about the shelling of the Vasilyevskaya pumping station area by the Ukrainian military.