Ukrainian Military in these minutes began a massive shelling of residential areas of the Leninsky district of Donetsk in the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic, informs on Sunday, the Donetsk news Agency. "Several shells exploded on the street Dneprodzerzhinsk. Several shells exploded near the TV center. It is fired from heavy artillery. In some houses the blast wave beat out glasses ", - It is also noted that the residents of the houses hastily hid in the shelter. Data received about the damage so far is not. The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass discussed during the meeting in Minsk of the contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.