Donetsk, Aug 18 — DAN. Ukrainian gunmen have opened fire at the Donetsk People’s Republic 67 times over the past 24 hours (from 6:00, August 17 to 6:00, August 18), causing new civilian casualties and damage to infrastructure, the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) said on Thursday.
“Over the past 24 hours, one civilian was killed in the liberated Krasny Liman settlement, ” the JCCC said. Nine civilians were wounded in the Kirovsky, Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of the DPR capital, Gorlovka and the recently liberated Staromlinovka and Krasny Liman, and 27 houses and four infrastructure facilities were damaged.
Ukrainian army units delivered fire at six of the nine districts of Donetsk, Makeyevka, Yasinovataya and Gorlovka, as well as at their outskirts: Yelenovka, Mineralnoye, Novobakhmutovka, Verkhnetoretskoye, Mironovsky and Mikhailovka. The enemy used “Uragan” multiple rocket launchers, 155mm, 152mm and 122mm artillery, tank guns and mortars.
In the previous 24-hour period, the JCCC recorded 65 Ukrainian strikes at the DPR in which two civilians were killed another 12 were wounded.*jk