Militants launch attack on Dzerzhynsk in Donetsk region 

UNIAN reports: Two persons have been killed as a result of the shelling of the town of Dzerzhynsk, Ukrainian Interior Ministry's Public Relations Department in Donetsk region said on July 30.

"At about 03:00 Kyiv time [on July 3], the militants fired on the central part of Dzerzhynsk. Two locals, born in 1982 and 1956, were killed," the report reads.

According to the report, a gas pipeline was also damaged.

"Shells hit some districts in the town, having caused blackouts. Two coal mines were disconnected from the power grid, and more than 200 miners were trapped underground. They have been evacuated already," the report says.

According to law enforcers, investigators are now working on the scene. Information on casualties or damages is being verified.

As Ukraine's Ministry of Defence reported earlier, combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 82 times overnight, using banned artillery systems, mortars, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and small arms.