DONETSK, October 25 – Novosti. Ukrainian troops shelled Makiivka and Donetsk in five minutes, firing three shells with a caliber of 155 millimeters, the DPR representative office in the JCCC said .
“After 6.00 (the time coincides with Moscow time – ed.), shelling was recorded from the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction: 6.55 – the settlement of Orlovka – the city of Donetsk (Kiev, Kuibyshevsky districts ): three shells with a caliber of 155 millimeters were fired … 7.00 – the settlement Orlovka – the settlement of Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district): three shells of 155 mm caliber were fired,” the agency’s Telegram channel said in a statement.
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 Kyiv troops were supplied with German self-propelled artillery PzH 2000, Polish self-propelled guns Krab and French self-propelled guns CAESAR, using shells of this caliber