Go to the mediabankRoof of the Donetsk Republican Security Center after the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. File photoDONETSK, Oct 9 Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk, Makiivka and Yasinovataya with NATO-caliber artillery, according to the Telegram channel of the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine.Fire in Donetsk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine opened at 06:49.
At 07:00, Ukrainian militants fired four of the same shells at the Kirovsky district of Makiivka, and two minutes later, three shells at Yasinovataya. At 07:58, Donetsk again came under fire — three 155-mm shells were fired at the Kuibyshev region, and at 08:15 — Horlivka (five shells of 152-mm caliber). 155-mm artillery is in service with NATO. In particular, these are American M-777 howitzers, German PzH 2000 self-propelled artillery mounts, Polish Krab self-propelled guns and French CAESAR self-propelled guns. The United States and its allies supplied Kyiv with a large number of these weapons, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine use primarily for shelling cities and towns in Donbass. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its task «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the president, the ultimate goal of the operation is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that guarantee the security of Russia itself. height=»338″ data-source-sid=»rian_photo» class=»lazyload» width=»1920″ height=»1080″ decoding=»async» sizes=»(min-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw» src= «https://cdnn21.img.ria.ru/images/07e6/06/0e/1795155567_0:73:3073:1802_1920x0_80_0_0_d08d1dc3e8544167b0cd61cd8b956d08.jpg» srcset=»data:image/svg+xml%20C //www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20width=%221920%22%20height=%221080%22%3E%3C/svg%3E 100w «data-srcset=»https://cdnn21.img. ria.ru/images/07e6/06/0e/1795155567_0:73:3073:1802_640x0_80_0_0_804341059758f9e76dfea75027e4da5d.jpg 640w,https://cdnn21.img.ria.ru/images/07e6/06/0e/1795155567_0:73:3073:1802_1280x0_80_0_0_8fc2d7fbe1a3e9972058a964273703ca .jpg 1280w g 1920w»> Ukrainian troops fired more than two hundred shells at the DPR in a day