Three people were killed and two were injured as a result of Russian shelling of several villages in Ukraine's Donetsk region, the prosecutor general's office said on Tuesday evening.

According to the prosecutors, all three people, two women and a man, were killed in the village of Torske at around 1850 local time (1550 GMT).

Russia says six killed in shelling of Donetsk city, Zaporizhzhia region

The prosecutors provided no further detail of the attack.