Kyiv, Dec. 29 -- Ukrainian authorities on Monday said Russia had continued its overnight shelling on the Kyiv-controlled Donetsk region, which hit multiple districts across eastern Ukraine, amid peace talks between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Florida in order to end the war in Europe.

According to a statement shared on Telegram by the Head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration and Regional Military Administration, Russian forces carried out seven shelling attacks on settlements in the Donetsk region overnight, killing one and injuring five.

In the Pokrovsk district, five residential houses were destroyed in the Shakhivska community, including three homes in Kucherev Yar and two in Gruz...