Donetsk, Nov 9 – DAN. Ukrainian forces have fired 550 artillery and mortar rounds at the outskirts of Donetsk, Yasinovataya, Dokuchayevsk, Gorlovka and Telmanovskiy district since Monday evening, a DPR defence source told Donetsk News Agency on Tuesday.

“From 6 p.m. to 3 a.m., Ukrainian army units carried out intense shelling along the line of contact. Trudovskiye, Alexandrovka and Staromikhailovka villages west of Donetsk, Shirokaya Balka outside Gorlovka, the outskirts of Dokuchayevsk, Belaya Kamenka of Telmanovskiy district, the industrial area outside Yasinovataya were hit with 550 artillery and tank guns rounds, and 82mm and 120mm mortar rounds," the interlocutor said.

Ukrainian forces also used infantry fighting vehicle cannons, grenade launchers, recoilless anti-tank guns and small arms.

Earlier it was reported that two houses are damaged in Trudovskiye and Staromikhailovka as a result of Ukrainian strikes.