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There is one small problem with "Ukraine attacked a Donetsk market in the Kirovskyi District with mortars."

It's impossible.

The LOC is 15.2 km away.

No 120 mm mortar system in NATO inventory can reach 15,700 meters.

Splash patterns don't match any barrel artillery rounds.
Russian state media and propagandists were very careful not to photograph craters - makes analysis harder - but there is this one.

That's not from an S-300 missile, Grad, or Smerch rocket. It was a unitary HE warhead and not fragmentation. Image
According to Russian sources, this is the crater caused by a 155 mm artillery round.

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