As a result of the incident, several houses were burned down. This was announced by the chairman of the Donetsk regional military-civil administration Pavel Zhebrivsky on his Facebook page.

As he said, the Russian mercenary troops today have again done woes. After their shelling on three streets of the village of Zhovanke - Vernadsky, Manuilsky and Zhuravsky, fires began.

Thus, the shelling began after two o'clock in the afternoon and the shell hit the barn on Zhuravsky Street, after which a fire began.

The grass burned on Vernandsky Street after shooting, "the official said, adding that the rescuers arrived and found five burnt non-residential houses. At this three more were completely on fire. Now the fire has already been eliminated, but the militants have resumed firing, and how it will end, one Lord knows, "wrote Zhebrivsky.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, during the day in the places of hostilities in the Donbass among the siloviki no one was killed. At the same time, on August 20, as a result of military operations, five Ukrainian defenders immediately received injuries.