“We became aware that there was an accumulation of forces and means of the enemy, and fire damage was inflicted on these places,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Basurin said that as a result, the Ukrainian side suffered losses of about 700 people killed, and about 100 units of various equipment were also destroyed.
“And after that, a very strong shelling began - out of anger, probably - residential areas of precisely those areas that had never been shelled at all before,” he said.
Basurin clarified that this happened last week.
Earlier, the DPR stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the quarters of Donetsk from the French self-propelled guns CAESAR.