The representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine, on the morning of December 25, reported 41 incidents of fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the past day.

During shelling, the enemy used multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), 152 and 155 mm artillery, as well as 120 mm mortars and tanks.

In total, 198 units of various ammunition were fired in the direction of the DPR.

Such settlements as Donetsk, Mayorsk, Panteleimonovka, Krasny Partizan, Yasinovataya, Mineralnoe and Makeevka were shelled.

Four people were injured, including a girl born in 2015.

Seven houses and four civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.

As the mayor of Donetsk Aleksey Kulemzin clarified the night before, as a result of the shelling of the city, the building of one of the kindergartens, the Republican Trauma Center, and a polyclinic were damaged.

In turn, the representative office of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) in the JCCC reported four shelling of the settlements of Belokurakino, Kremennaya and Rubizhnoye using American-made HIMARS MLRS and artillery.

In Kremennaya, as a result of shelling, two civilians were killed, and one more person was injured.

An elevator was destroyed in Polovinkino.

It should be noted that the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced the start of investigations into the facts of some shelling recorded the day before.

“The Investigative Committee of Russia, within the framework of criminal cases on the crimes of the Kyiv regime, is investigating the facts of shelling of settlements in the LPR, DPR and Kursk region,” the agency said in a statement.

It is noted that the UK will establish all the circumstances of the incident and give a legal assessment of the actions of all those involved.

The transfer of forces in the Svatov area

Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, said that in the direction of the settlement of Svatovo, the transfer of additional forces and means of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was noted.

He called this step on the part of the Ukrainian leadership forced, since "irretrievable and sanitary losses exceeded the estimated estimated figures, and firepower turned out to be ineffective."

Earlier, Marochko said that the Russian military in the Svatov region was conducting mobile defense.

Attack on the accumulation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction

Scouts of the 6th Army of the Western Military District struck at the accumulation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the equipped positions found in the forest belt in the Kupyansky direction.

According to RIA Novosti, one of the Russian intelligence officers, after detecting Ukrainian trenches with the help of a drone, transmitted their coordinates.

Also on russian.rt.com Medic Casper spoke about the rescue of more than 250 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers in the NVO zone

After receiving this information, the servicemen immediately struck at the enemy.

It is noted that during the withdrawal of the calculation, it was necessary to open fire to kill from small arms.

Defense in the Zaporozhye region

The chairman of the movement “We are with Russia”, a member of the main council of the regional administration, Vladimir Rogov, said that a defense line in depth has been created in the Zaporozhye region.

“A defense line in depth with fortified areas has been created that will stop any attempt by the enemy to disturb the peace of the inhabitants of the Zaporozhye region of the Russian Federation,” he wrote on Telegram.

According to Rogov, the construction of defensive structures along the front line is nearing completion.

Kyiv mobilized in Kharkiv and Kherson regions

Former LPR Ambassador in Moscow Rodion Miroshnik said that the Ukrainian authorities carried out a forced mobilization in the part of the Kherson region under their control, as well as in the Kharkov region.

“Confirmation has come that Kyiv has carried out a planned forced mobilization in the occupied territories of the Kherson and Kharkov regions,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.

As Miroshnik specified, earlier the Ukrainian authorities ordered to mobilize 15,000 people in the Kherson region and 20,000 people in the Kharkiv region.

According to him, those mobilized from the Kherson region have already been sent to the combat zone.