The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired eight incendiary rockets from MLRS and seven cluster bombs in Donetsk area, the Donetsk People's Republic's representative office at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
"Ukrainian troops fired 21 NATO 155 mm caliber corps, including seven ammunitions with a cluster warhead, as well as eight missiles from a multiple launch rocket system. Kiev, Kuybyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of the city [of Donetsk] fell under attack", the representative office said in a telegram channel.
Artillery of 155 mm caliber is used by NATO countries. The United States supplied Ukraine with long-range M777155 mm howitzers, Ukrainian troops are actively using them to shell the cities of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. Also, Ukrainian troops have been supplied with German PzH 2000 self-propelled artillery mounts, Polish Krab self-propelled guns, and French CAESAR self-propelled guns using shells of this caliber.
Russia has repeatedly slammed Western supplies of cluster munitions to Ukraine, terming their us as inhumane and responsible for the death of journalists covering the Ukraine conflict. Notably, Sputnik war correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev died in the zone of the special military op in July. His wounds resulted from the cluster munitions exploding.