Donetsk, Dec 6 — DAN. Ukrainian armed formations shelled the Donetsk People’s Republic 33 times in the period from 6:00, December 5 to 6:00, December 6, the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination of issues related to Ukraine’s war crimes (JCCC) said on Tuesday.

The enemy fired 171 rounds of ammunition at nine DPR settlements using multiple rocket launchers, cannon artillery, tank guns and mortars, the JCCC said. The Voroshilovsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk were heavily shelled; the first strike was delivered early in the morning when everybody was asleep, and the second in the evening as people were coming back from work.

Four civilians were killed in the Kievsky district, and another six were wounded in the Kievsky and Voroshilovsky districts. Another civilian was wounded in the Alexandrovka neighborhood in the southwest of the city.

Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Makeyevka and their suburbs also came under artillery fire. Overall, 42 homes and ten civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.

In the previous 24-hour period, 12 DPR civilians, mostly Donetsk residents, were wounded in Ukrainian artillery attacks.*jk