The DPR representative office in the joint center for control and coordination of the ceasefire recorded shelling in Donetsk and its suburbs. More than 50 minutes were released on them.
In total, the DPR recorded 10 attacks from 21:04 (coincides with Moscow). 12 mines of 120 mm caliber were fired in Donetsk. Mines also fell in the suburbs – Staromikhaylovka, Kommunarovka, Spartak. Mines and grenades were also fired at other settlements.
Around midnight, the sounds of explosions were heard from the outskirts of Donetsk. Interfax reported that there were several dozen powerful explosions of artillery shells on the northern and western outskirts of the city.
Since February 18, the DPR and LPR have been evacuating the population to Russia. The leaders of the self-proclaimed republics explained this with information about Ukraine’s plans to attack. Kiev denies this. In the center of Donetsk on February 18, the car of the head of the people’s militia of the DPR exploded, he himself was not injured. Several explosions occurred on a gas pipeline in Luhansk the day before.
For more information about the situation in the Donbass, see Kommersant’s “Breakthrough Test”.