Saturday night in Donetsk was held under the sounds of bursting shells, the Ukrainian Military shelled the city with heavy weapons, said in the Ministry of defence self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic (DND).

"work in the city using heavy artillery. Apparently it ATGMs and mortars ", - quotes the expression envoy of the Ministry of defense of the Donetsk news Agency.

It is noted that the sounds of the tearing of shells is heard in 2 districts of the city - the Kirovsky and Leninsky.

the Department of defense also stressed that backfire equipped with weapons forces DNR will not open. Information received about the damage so far is not.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE.

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