The Ukrainian Armed Forces also used NATO weapons, the DPR representative office said at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire DONETSK, August 23.
/tass/. The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on Tuesday shelled the center of Donetsk with American MLRS HIMARS and NATO weapons. This was reported in the representation of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in the JCCC.
"The enemy subjected the center of Donetsk to massive shelling from NATO weapons. In particular, in the first two series of attacks on the Voroshilovsky district, the enemy used 155 mm artillery systems," the representative office said in a Telegram channel. "The third attack, according to updated information from the JCCC military experts who work at the site of the shelling, was carried out by the enemy using HIMARS MLRS."
As the First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov clarified in turn, the blow to the administration of the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin was also struck directly from the HIMARS MLRS. "Along Pushkin Boulevard 7B (where the administration of the head of the republic is located - approx. TASS) was struck by the American MLRS HIMARS. Characteristic fragments were found on the spot," Bezsonov wrote in his Telegram channel.
According to the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire regime, a total of 12 shells from NATO 155 mm artillery were fired at the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk on Tuesday. Hits were recorded in the area of the Green Plaza shopping center. According to a TASS correspondent, one of the shells exploded near Donetsk National Technical University, the Central Hotel, where foreign journalists live, came under fire. Previously, no one was injured, the journalists went down to the basement. According to the mayor of the city Alexey Kulemzin, three men were killed due to the shelling of the Voroshilovsky district in the center of Donetsk, the total number of victims, according to the latest data, was six people.
