DONETSK, December 3When the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck a beauty salon in Donetsk, at least six civilians were injured, a correspondent reported.
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"Training was taking place in a classroom, a girl was wounded in the head by a shrapnel . <…> We all quickly hit the floor, everything is foggy here, <…> on the second floor a woman was wounded in the stomach, we were all scared, we were all in tears, we were all crying. “We have a beauty studio here,” said Victoria, an eyewitness to the incident.
A representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia clarified that the fire was fired in the Leninsky district of Donetsk, presumably using a 155-mm artillery shell.
«In addition, there is currently information about six wounded,» he added.
According to the DPR representative office in the JCCC, over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military fired at the territory of the republic 12 times, firing 38 units of various ammunition. Six residential buildings and two social infrastructure facilities were damaged. Two more civilians were injured.
155mm artillery is used by NATO countries. The United States supplied Ukraine with long-range M777 howitzers of this caliber, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces are actively using to shell the cities of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. Also, German PzH 2000 self-propelled artillery mounts, Polish Krab self-propelled guns and French CAESAR self-propelled guns using the same shells were transferred to the Ukrainian troops.