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Russian shelling set a focal market burning in Ukraine's eastern city of Slovyansk, killing two individuals and harming seven, an authority said.
"This is unadulterated illegal intimidation!" Donetsk local head Pavlo Kyrylenko said.
Chairman Vadym Lyakh said Slovyansk was being hit by Russian ordnance salvoes from closer situations, as it turned into a cutting edge city.
He posted photographs of Tuesday's burst on Facebook, portraying gigantic shelling, and asking individuals to remain in covers.
Russia is trying to catch all of the eastern modern Donbas region. The region is comprised of two locales, Luhansk and Donetsk. In the wake of perceiving two renegade self-declared statelets there, Russian President Vladimir Putin requested an attack of Ukraine on 24 February.
Last week, Ukraine's military said it needed to pull out of Lysychansk, its final fortification in Luhansk, under serious Russian fire.
It said its soldiers were presently reinforcing fortresses to protect regions it holds in Donetsk, including Slovyansk.
Luhansk territorial head Serhiy Haidai on Tuesday said that "weighty battling is going at the edge of the Luhansk area close to Lysychansk".
"The foe has sent critical powers," he said, adding that Russia was attempting to send a greater amount of its powers across a waterway by building boat spans.
Mr Haidai said the Russians were "supporting weighty misfortunes".
The BBC has not had the option to check subtleties of the most recent assaults. In different turns of events:
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