
DONETSK, November 24 – Novosti. Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk and Makiivka with 155 mm NATO shells, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported .
“Fire was recorded from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces ( Ukrainian Armed Forces ) in the direction: 15.10 – the settlement of Netaylovo – the city of Donetsk ( Kuibyshevsky district ): three shells of 155 mm caliber were fired,” the department said in its Telegram channel.
The mission added that at 16.00 Ukrainian troops fired three shells of 155 mm caliber at the Kievsky district of Donetsk, and at 16.04 at Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka – three shells of the same caliber.
Makeevka is a satellite city of Donetsk, adjacent to the capital of the DPR from the northeast.
Artillery with a caliber of 155 millimeters is used by NATO countries . The United States supplied Kiev with long-range M777 howitzers with a caliber of 155 millimeters, Ukrainian troops are actively using them to shell the cities of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics . Also, the Ukrainian troops were supplied with German PzH 2000 self-propelled artillery mounts, Polish Krab self-propelled guns and French CAESAR self-propelled guns using shells of this caliber.