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On July 4, the total number of civilian casualties from the attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) in the Donetsk People’s Republic is 30 people. 3 civilians were killed and 27 others were wounded.
According to the DPR representative in the JCCC, as of 18:00, the AFU fired 730 ammunition of various types, including from the BM-27 Hurricane MLRS and BM-21 “Grad”, as well as artillery ammunition of 155, 152 and 122 mm caliber.
On the outskirts of Donetsk, a woman was killed by the shrapnel when she was in her car in the village of Alexandrovka. In the town of Gorlovka, one local resident was killed, seven more were wounded as a result of shelling by the AFU.
Civilian targets were hit in the Petrovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Kievsky districts of the city of Donetsk. Heavy shelling was reported in the town of Yasinovataya.
Shelling was reported in the area of the Donetsk railway station and in the market located nearby. Large fire broke out in the shops.
The Ukrainian military fired at nursery-garden No. 396 in the Kiev district of Donetsk:
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The local school No. 21 and the Palace of Culture and Technology located in the Kuibyshev district of Donetsk were also damaged as a result of the evening shelling.
On July 4, the First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov claimed that amid the shelling, “the Ukrainian Nazis staged an information diversion. They sent messages about the mining of shopping centers in Donetsk in order to increase pressure on the Emergency Situations Ministry forces, which are now actively engaged in eliminating the consequences of the shelling.” the Kiev regime has been carrying out such provocations on a regular basis for years in Russian cities, especially in Crimea.
