Donetsk, Apr 5 - DAN. Ukrainian armed formations have delivered strikes at 11 settlements in the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past 24 hours causing casualties and damage, the DPR Office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) reported on Tuesday.

“Over the past 24 hours, 28 civilians were wounded including 23 in liberated areas,” the report said. “Seventeen houses and nine civil infrastructure facilities were damaged in Donetsk’s Petrovsky and Leninsky districts, Alexandrovka and Yasinovataya.”

Eleven settlements and their suburbs came under fire including Donetsk, Makeyevka, Gorlovka and Yasinovataya. The enemy expended 100 rounds of ammunition of calibre over 12.7mm using heavy artillery such as multiple rocket launchers, as well as anti-tank missile systems, mortars, grenade launchers and small arms.

The report does not cover the fighting in Mariupol. According to the Territorial Defense Headquarters, 551 people have been evacuated from the city to the DPR since 8:00, April 4.

In the previous reporting period, Ukrainian armed formations fired 97 rounds of ammunition at the DPR.*jk