
DONETSK, December 31 – Novosti. Ukrainian troops shelled the Petrovsky, Kirovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk on Saturday evening, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported .
According to messages in the telegram channel of the mission, shelling was recorded at 21.00, a total of 6 shells with a caliber of 155 millimeters were fired.
In addition, according to the agency, shelling was recorded in the direction of the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeyevka (at 20.55, 5 shells with a caliber of 155 millimeters were fired). At 20.54 shelling was recorded in the direction of Yasinovataya (8 shells with a caliber of 155 millimeters were fired), the representative office noted.
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.