Ukrainian shelling and a drone strike near the city of Horlivka in the Russia-occupied region of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine has killed two people and wounded six others, Denis Pushilin, the Kremlin-backed regional leader said on Telegram on January 12. Pushilin said an electrical engineer was killed in the shelling and a subsequent drone strike on the ambulance that had come to rescue the victims killed a paramedic. Ukraine did not comment and the information could not be immediately verified.
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