ROSTOV-ON-DON, August 2 (Itar-Tass) - Nine Ukrainian shells have exploded in Russia's Rostov region, a Russian border guard official told Itar-Tass.

There were nine explosions of shells about a kilometer away from the village of Mityakinskaya. The shells were fired from the neighbouring Ukrainian territory, supposedly from a Grad launcher, the regional border guard department’s spokesman Vasily Malayev said.

Nobody was hurt, and there was no damage, he added, referring to preliminary information.