On Monday, February 20, Ukrainian troops fired 258 shells at the settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), resulting in the death of a civilian. The representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported this on the Telegram channel.

According to the department, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) fired from a multiple launch rocket system (MLRS), mortars, cannon artillery of 122 and 152 mm caliber, as well as NATO 155 mm caliber. “Over the past 24 hours, information was received about the death of a civilian (male) in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk,” the representative office clarified.

Earlier, the chairman of the People's Council of the DPR, Vladimir Bidevka, said that the Russian-led special military operation (SVO) can be called an operation to save millions of civilians in Donbass.