JCCC employee in the DPR. Archival photoDONETSK, June 21Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk and Mikhailovka in 40 minutes, firing eight shells with a caliber of 152 mm, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire said. from the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine) in the following directions: 15.00 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Novgorodskoye — the settlement of Mikhailovka: four shells with a caliber of 152 mm were fired; 15.40 — the settlement of Krasnogorovka — the city of Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 4 shells with a caliber of 152 mm were fired 152 millimeters,” the representative office said in the Telegram channel. Starting from June 13, the capital of the DPR has been subjected to unprecedented shelling. The blows are inflicted on practically all districts of the city, the Kyiv, Petrovsky, Proletarsky and Kuibyshevsky regions suffer the most. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said in an official address that the republic is asking Russia for «additional allied forces.» The mayor of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, called the shelling of the city on June 13 one of the fiercest in the eight years of the conflict.