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Ukrainian troops shelled the city of Donetsk using BM-21 "Grad" rockets in the early hours of Monday, the Donetsk People’s Republic’s (DPR) mission to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination on the ceasefire regime (JCCC) said.

A total of 20 Grad rockets were launched at the Kirovskyi District in Donetsk, the DPR mission said on its Telegram channel shortly after midnight on Monday.

"New information shows that four people were injured in the terror attack in Melitopol. The young woman was hit the worst. She has lost a lot of blood," Selivanov told Sputnik.

Selivanov accused militants loyal to the Ukrainian president of organizing what he described as acts of terrorism. He said the attacks were meant to target civilians.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday he was planning to hold phone talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the week.

"It is possible that in the coming week we will hold phone talks with Mr. Putin," Erdogan said at a meeting with the youth in the city of Van.

He added that he intended to discuss the "grain issue" with Putin and with Volodymyr Zelensky..

Two people were injured on Sunday in a bombing near the Interior Ministry's office in the city of Melitopol in Zaporozhye region, which local authorities labelled as a "terrorist attack" by Ukrainian militants.

"An explosive device was planted in a trash bin outside the city’s interior ministry office. The lives of employees and military personnel are not in danger," regional deputy interior chief Alexei Selivanov said on social media.

A young woman and a man were injured, Selivanov added. They were hospitalised.

There are no prerequisites for commuting the death sentences of three foreign mercenaries convicted in the Donetsk People's Republic, head of the DPR Denis Pushilin said on Sunday.

"In terms of possible exchanges, pardons and such. At the moment, even though I really have the opportunity and the right under our legislation to pardon these people, I see no prerequisites for me to move in this direction," Pushilin said.

On Thursday, a DPR court ruled that Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim and UK citizens Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin would be executed by shooting. The verdict has already been condemned by the United Kingdom, the United States and the United Nations.

All three militants pleaded guilty to participating in hostilities on the side of Ukraine, while Aslin also pleaded guilty to taking training to commit acts of terrorism. The mercenaries have a month to appeal the decision in a higher court.

The DPR head added that reburials in designated sites are underway with the help of forensic experts, employees of the prosecutor's office, and other specialists.

Pushilin also noted that Mariupol residents began returning to the city as the infrastructure is being rebuilt.

"People are coming back — this is their home. Their return depends on the reconstruction of critical infrastructure. People are trying to return to the city's neighborhoods where water and electricity supplies have been already restored," Pushilin said.

However, according to the republic's head, there are still some difficulties with jobs since many enterprises have yet to be fully restored. Nevertheless, people are able to find jobs in their specialty via the city's career centres, or get a job in district development which is in high demand in Mariupol right now, Pushilin said.

Mariupol, a coastal city in the breakaway DPR, came under the control of Ukrainian troops during the 2014 offensive. On 7 March, a senior DPR military said that the Russian and DPR forces surrounded the city and were clearing it of Ukrainian troops, including the nationalist Azov battalion. Numerous Ukrainian mines were later found on the territory of the Mariupol port.

On 24 February, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine after the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk appealed for help in defending themselves against Ukrainian forces. Russia said that the aim of its operation is the "demilitarization and denazification" of Ukraine.

Head of the military-civil administration of the Zaporozhye Region Yevgeny Balitsky handed over Russian passports to dozens of the region's residents, promising that "Russia will not go anywhere," a Sputnik correspondent reported.

The ceremony of presenting passports in Melitopol is timed to coincide with the Russia Day.

"Today, on the Russia Day, I congratulate everyone who has become a citizen of a huge, great, fair country with pride in my heart. This is another proof that Russia will not go anywhere. We are here forever. These lands were at one time conquered by the tsars, rebuilt by the Soviet Union, and will develop together with the entire people of Ukraine," Balitsky said at the ceremony.

The Russian troops have taken control of part of Zaporozhye Region in the course of the special military operation in Ukraine. Local military-civilian administrations have been formed, the broadcasting of Russian TV channels and radio stations has been launched, and trade ties with Crimea are being restored. The region has announced plans to become a constituent entity of the Russian Federation.

During Kallas' meeting with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on June 6 in London, the sides were discussing the possibility of establishing a NATO division-level management structure in Estonia. Kallas said that more details on the initiative will be established for the NATO Summit in Madrid later in June. The sides also agreed that "NATO must change its fundamental defense and deterrence position on the east wing and specific decisions regarding this matter must be taken at the NATO Summit."