With arms forces of Ukraine over 40 times fired at positions of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's Republic for the previous day, informed the Ministry of defence DND.

"The situation in Donetsk people's Republic is heating up, during the day, the Ukrainian Military fired on our territory 216 handling of the dies 122 and 152 mm. the Total number of attacks over the past day was 45 facts ", - quotes the messenger of the office of the Donetsk news Agency.

the Ministry of defence stresses that intense mortar and artillery shelling Gorlovka suffered.

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, 8 thousand people.

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