Ukraine's Joint Task Force said tonight that 20 civilians, including a child, had been killed in shelling by the Russian military in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, Reuters reported.

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The task force said in a statement posted on Facebook that 25 settlements in the region had been shelled and 42 residential buildings and a school destroyed.

Reuters notes that it failed to confirm the accuracy of the information from an independent source.

So far there is no comment from Russia, BTA reported.

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