Between February 19 and 20, the Ukrainian army fired 1,120 rounds of ammunition across the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the republic’s representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) said.
From three in the morning last Saturday until three in the morning on Sunday, the DPR recorded 82 ceasefire violationsI admitted by the Ukrainian side.
Thus, fire from 122-mm guns, mortars of 120 and 82-mm caliber, automatic and anti-tank grenade launchers was carried out in the Gorlovsky direction. Similar weapons were used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk and Mariupol (with the exception of automatic grenade launchers) directions.
It is alleged that two households and a private car were damaged in the village of Zaitsevo (Southern). Unexploded ordnance was found near one of the houses. In addition, residential houses in the village of Trudovskaya mine in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk and the village of mine 6/7 in Gorlovka were damaged.
It is also known that a local resident born in 1938 was shell-shocked in the Kominternovo area.
Another consequence of the shelling was the shutdown of the Vasilyevsky pumping station of the first lift of the South-Donbass water conduit. As a result, the Donetsk Filtration Station was transferred to a backup water supply.
By latest dataclashes on the line of contact continue – on Sunday morning it became known about an attempt by servicemen of the 79th airborne assault brigade APU to attack the positions of the People’s Militia of the LPR. The attack was repulsed, and civilian casualties were reported.
In addition, saboteurs continue to operate in the DPR and LPR – one of such groups was neutralized in Donetsk on Sunday night. According to the Ministry of State Security of the DPR, the attackers planned to blow up electrical substations, gas pipelines and filter stations.