DONETSK, January 21. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces have opened fire on the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) nine times in three hours, the DPR mission at the Joint Center on Control and Coordination of Issues related to Ukraine’s war crimes said on Saturday.

Yasinovataya, Makeyevka, and Zaytsevo were pounded by the Ukrainian military. Donetsk’s Kirovsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky and Petrovsky neighborhoods also came under shelling.

According to a post on the mission’s Telegram channel, the Ukrainian military had fired 45 shells of NATO-standard 155mm from 01:20 p.m. to 04:20 p.m. Moscow time (10:20 a.m. GMT to 01.20 p.m. GMT).