The Ukrainian armed forces shelled populated areas in the Donetsk people's republic 29 times over the day

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) shelled the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) 33 times over the day, the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to Ukrainian War Crimes (JCCC) for the republic reported on December 14.

"29 facts of armed attacks by the VFU were recorded by the DNR representation in the JCCC over the past 24 hours - in the Gorlovka direction," the agency's Telegram channel said.

In total, the Ukrainian troops fired 84 units of various munitions.

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Earlier, on December 14, it became known about five civilians injured in Gorlovka from the AFU strikes. Six houses, a school, a territorial center and several buses were also damaged.

On the same day, two people were injured when an AFU drone attacked a service vehicle in Horlivka. They received injuries of varying degrees of severity.

On the night of December 14, the DNR representative office in the JCCC reported that a Ukrainian drone dropped an explosive object in the Nikitovskyi district of Horlivka.

Ukrainian militants have been shelling the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics, as well as Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, on a daily basis amid the special operation to protect Donbas, the start of which was announced by Russia on February 24, 2022.