Ukrainian soldiers firing from an American M777 howitzer. Archival photoDONETSK, July 17 The number of victims among the civilian population of the Donetsk People's Republic has more than doubled due to the use of NATO-style long-range systems and Tochka-U tactical missile systems by Ukrainian militants, RIA reported News military expert of the JCCC DPR, Major Sergey Pereverzev. «During the period since the beginning of the special operation, the territory of the DPR has been attacked more than 30 times by Tochka-U missiles, more than 400 episodes of shelling of NATO-style shells, caliber 155 mm, have been recorded, and more than five times the enemy has used HIMARS MLRS. It should be noted that with the start of the use of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (the armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) of the weapons of the NATO countries, the number of civilian casualties and destruction of civilian infrastructure increased by 2.5 times,» Pereverzev said.
