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DONETSK, Dec 28 In Donetsk during the shelling by the Ukrainian troops, the building of the school and the branch of the Pension Fund were damaged, there are victims, the mayor of the city Oleksiy Kulemzin said in his Telegram channel. There are victims, their personal data is being established,» he wrote.
It is specified that residential buildings and a grocery store were also shelled.
“I was driving by, I heard a sound that it was starting to lie down somewhere. It hit the car, the windows flew out. I panicked, I didn’t know what to do, so I was in the car. But, thank God, I was lucky that I was at least alive,” he told the correspondent a local resident.
Earlier on Wednesday, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the JCCC reported about the shelling of Donetsk with the use of MLRS, during which 16 rockets were fired at the city. As a result of the attack, a civilian was killed and two people were injured.
Throughout the day, the Ukrainian military also carried out several attacks on the Kirovsky, Kievsky and Petrovsky districts of the city.
When shelling the capital of the DPR, Ukrainian militants mainly use 155-mm shells, which are used by NATO countries. Thus, the United States supplied the Ukrainian Armed Forces with long-range M777 howitzers of this caliber. Ukrainian troops also received German PzH 2000 self-propelled artillery mounts, Polish Krab self-propelled guns and French CAESAR self-propelled guns using shells of this caliber.
Since February 24, a military special operation has been underway in 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 is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions guaranteeing the security of Russia. Map of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine on 28.12.2022InfographicView