OREANDA-NEWS  The press secretary of the head of the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR), Anna Romanova, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled the city of Pervomaisk in the Mykolaiv region, damaging the gas pipeline, RIA Novosti reports.

According to her, the shelling was allegedly carried out from the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system (MLRS). "The gas pipeline was damaged, there was a fire of dry grass," she said.

Romanova clarified that the gas pipeline had to be temporarily shut down. There is no information about the victims.

Earlier, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported the dropping of an explosive object by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.