In Hranitne, Donetsk region, an explosive device blew up the child, reported press service of the Regional Internal Department.
The boy, born in 2003, tripped the explosive device at the outskirts of the village. He was hospitalized with shrapnel wounds of legs to the central district hospital in Volnovakha.
This fact is registered, the circumstances of the accident and origin of the device are being investigated by local Interior services.
On September 29Ivan Šimonović, UN Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights, reported that the total number of casualties of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine has reached 8,050 people, of them more than 2,500 are civilians.