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Ukrainian army shells Donetsk and Makeyevka

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Moscow, Aug 13 (Prensa Latina) The Ukrainian troops on Saturday shelled the Makyeyevka and Donetsk districts, by launching 27 large-caliber shells in five-minute lapses, the Joint Center for Control and Coordination reported.

The representation of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in the ceasefire coordinating body wrote on Telegram that the attacks were perpetrated between 08:05-08:10 hours and 10:30-10:35 hours, local time.

In this regard, they added that the shells dropped in Makyeyevka, Chervonogvardeiski district, Kirov and the city of Donetsk itself, were 152 millimeters and 155 millimeters in caliber, corresponding to armament from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), supplied in considerable quantities to Ukraine.

According to DPR authorities, the enemy troops shelled the territory 50 times, launching 333 projectiles of different calibers.

They claimed that as a result of those actions, the Ukrainian Army destroyed 42 buildings and seven civil premises in Gorlovka, Makyeyevka and Donetsk.

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