The report says that at 14:40 shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk was recorded from the side of the settlement of Krasnogorovka.

Ukrainian troops fired seven 122 mm shells.

"14:40 (coincides with Moscow time) - the settlement of Georgievka - the city of Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 122 mm caliber were fired," the representative office said.

Earlier, the deputy head of the People’s Militia Department of the DPR, Eduard Basurin, explained the intensified shelling of Donetsk in recent days by the Ukrainian troops by the fact that before that the Ukrainian side had lost about 700 people killed, and about 100 units of various equipment were also destroyed.