According to the victim,  on the evening of 10 September she had been with her son (20 years old) outside her house on Chkalova Street in Staromykhailivka (non-government-controlled territories) when she heard shelling. She and her son took cover between the house and the garage. She added that the roof of the latter was hit and she was injured while her son only received a scratch on his right hip from shrapnel. At Hospital No. 24 in Donetsk city (non-government-controlled), medical staff told the SMM that, on the evening of 10 September, a woman was admitted to the hospital with shrapnel embedded in her right heel.

On 13 September, in Staromykhailivka, the SMM observed damage to six civilian houses. The mission assessed the damage as fresh and caused by rounds (undetermined weapon type) from a north-westerly direction.

Source: SMM OSCE