DONETSK, Dec 15 Ukrainian troops released along Kirovsky and Petrovsky four more shells of 155 mm caliber were fired at Donetsk districts, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported. Moscow time — ed.) — the settlement of Krasnogorovka — the city of Donetsk (Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts): four shells with a caliber of 155 millimeters were fired,» the department said in its Telegram channel.
Ukrainian troops on Thursday morning fired at two central areas of Donetsk 40 missiles from the MLRS Grad. The mayor of the city, Aleksey Kulemzin, said that the center of Donetsk had been subjected to the most massive shelling since 2014. According to the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR, nine people were injured, including a child born in 2012. The authorities also reported damage to at least eight multi-apartment residential buildings, a dormitory, a shopping center, a university building and a church dome.
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.