DONETSK, 3 Dec Ukrainian troops shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, having fired three 155-millimeter NATO-caliber shells into the city, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported. .) in the direction: 07.50 – the settlement of Krasnogorovka – the city of Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells with a caliber of 155 millimeters were fired,” the representative office said in the Telegram channel.
In addition, Ukrainian troops fired on Horlivka and Chestnut, firing a total of eight shells with a caliber of 152 mm.
Petrovsky district is located on the western outskirts of the capital of the DPR, it is the most distant part of the city from the center. Since 2014, when the DPR declared independence from Kyiv, this area, starting from the line of contact outside the city of Marinka, has been regularly shelled by Ukrainian security forces.
155-mm artillery is used by NATO countries. The United States supplied Kyiv 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.