KIEV, April 27. /TASS/. The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) on Wednesday confirmed four civilians were killed in the shelling of the Elenovka border checkpoint of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).

"According to a preliminary assessment, three vehicles were damaged, four civilians were killed, and an unconfirmed number of people were injured," the SMM wrote on Facebook.

DPR Defense Ministry’s spokesman Eduard Basurin earlier said five civilians were killed.