Donetsk, Jun 20 - DAN. Ukrainian army units violated the ceasefire 17 times over the past 24 hours firing 239 rounds of ammunition at the Donetsk People’s Republic territory, head of the DPR Office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination Ruslan Yakubov said on Thursday.
“Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian armed formations violated the ceasefire 17 times expending 239 rounds of ammunition,” Yakubov said.
Strikes were delivered at the city airport area, the Lozovoye and Trudovskaya villages in Donetsk outskirts and suburbs; the Vasilyevka village outside Yasinovataya and Dokuchayevsk. Ukrainian forces also shelled Gorlovka’s Dolomitnoye neighbourhood and the Leninskoye, Dzerzhinskoye and Belaya Kamenka villages in southern DPR.
The enemy used D-30 howitzers,122mm, 82mm and 120mm mortars, grenade launchers and high calibre small arms.
The amount of expended ammunition of calibre up to 12.7mm is not added to overall daily statistics.
A children’s hospital and a swimming pool were damaged in Donetsk’s Petrovsky district in shelling by Kiev forces on Wednesday.
In the previous reporting period, Kiev army units violated the ceasefire 13 times firing nearly 200 rounds at DPR areas.*jk