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Ukrainian military shell LPR town of Stakhanov using HIMARS launchers

Information about possible casualties is still to come

MOSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. The Ukrainian military shelled the town of Stakhanov in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) on early Tuesday, firing two rockets from a US-made HIMARS multiple rocket launcher, the LPR mission to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of issues related to Ukraine’s war crimes said.

"A shelling attack was registered from positions held by Ukrainian armed formations: at 0:50 a.m. [Moscow time], two rockets were fired towards Stakhanov from the HIMARS MLRS," the mission said in its Telegram channel. "Information about possible casualties is still to come."

The Ukrainian military keep delivering strikes almost everyday with the use of HIMARS rocket launchers targeting residential areas of the Lugansk People’s Republic. LPR’s city of Rubezhnoye was shelled on early Monday and the city of Starobelsk came under a rocket attack a day earlier.