Rescuers work at the ruins of a residential building destroyed by a Russian military strike. Reuters

Ukrainian emergency services said on Monday that Russian shelling on the eastern region of Donetsk had killed six people in the town of Toretsk.

"Rescuers found and recovered the bodies of five dead people in total. Three people were rescued from the rubble and one of them died in hospital," the emergency services announced on social media, adding that their rescue operations were concluded.

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