In the evening of February 24, residents of Donetsk published in social networks videos with loud sounds of cannon fire clearly audible even in the city center.

‘The thunder is wild and windows in the center are shaking ... It is louder than it was yesterday,’ said in his blog the war correspondent Sergey Belous. 

‘The army is alerted to a state of full combat readiness. But there is nothing critical or out of control. There is a strong counter-battery fight towards the AFU grouping in the northwest,’ informed, in her turn, the war correspondent Marina Kharkova.