DONETSK, Dec 20 a total of eight shells of «NATO» caliber 155 millimeters in the Petrovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
«Fire was recorded from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Armed Forces of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 16.35 — the settlement of Netaylovo — the city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): five shells with a caliber of 155 millimeters were fired; 16.40 — the settlement of Krasnogorovka — the city of Donetsk (Petrovsky district ): fired three shells with a caliber of 155 millimeters,» the representative office said in the Telegram channel.
Kyiv district of Donetsk is located in the northern part of the city. Here are Shakhterskaya Square, Kyiv Prospekt, the railway station, the Donbass Arena football stadium. Artem Street, the main artery in the city, also ends here. Since 2014, when the DNR declared independence from Kyiv following a coup d'état there, the area has been regularly shelled by Ukrainian security forces. The northern outskirts of the district is considered to be the airport, which was destroyed as a result of many months of fighting between the Ukrainian military besieged there and the Donetsk militias who stormed their positions. 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 Lugansk 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.