Donetsk, Apr 7 - DAN. Ukrainian armed formations have fired 189 round of ammunition at nine settlements in the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past 24 hours, the DPR Office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) reported on Thursday.

“Thirty-two civilians including five children were wounded in the past 24 hours; all the casualties were reported in liberated areas,” the report said. “Three houses and four civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.”

The precise number of people hurt in Ukrainian aggression cannot be immediately estimated. In the designated period, nine DPR settlements including Donetsk, Dokuchayevsk, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and their suburbs were in the fire zone (without taking into account the liberated areas). The enemy fired at them 189 rounds of ammunition of calibre over 12.7mm using heavy artillery such as multiple rocket launchers and mortars, as well as grenade launchers and small arms. In the previous reporting period, the enemy fired 197 rounds of ammunition at DPR areas.

The Territorial Defense Headquarters reported that 572 people have been evacuated from liberated districts of Maripol since 8:00 April  6. *jk