“In connection with the current military situation, it was decided not to hold mass festive events,” the Donetsk News Agency quoted Kulemzin as saying.
The mayor congratulated the townspeople on the upcoming holidays and wished them speedy victory and peace.
Earlier it was reported that Ukrainian troops shelled the center of Donetsk with 155 mm shells, one of the attacks was carried out from the American HIMARS MLRS.
First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov said in an interview with RT that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 12 155 mm NATO shells at Donetsk.