Simcommander militia DND Eduard Baturin said that the Military on Tuesday for the first time fired Donetsk from multiple launch rocket systems fire Tornado.
"Military first used in Donetsk" Whirlwind, " said the correspondent of Bacurin. As confirmation, he demonstrated a fragment of the rocket.
According to Simcommander militia, there is also evidence of the use of "Tornado", the bottom of the Pot.
"It is one thing to have information, the other to observe the fragment", he explained, promises to give some missiles at the military Museum.
"Tornado" - a Soviet multiple rocket launchers by caliber 300 millimeters. Each missile contains about half a million damaging elements. The maximum range shooting is 90 kilometers, the area of damage in one hit of 12 missiles is 67 hectares.
Kyiv authorities began in April in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data, the victims of the conflict were 4, 8 thousands of civilians, more than 10 thousand were injured. The ninth of December in the Donbass began a consistent militias and security forces through the mediation of the OSCE another truce. On January 9, the intensity of attacks in the region has increased, and among them fired residential areas of Donetsk.
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