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Russia's state-owned news agency Tass is reporting that Yan Gagin, an assistant to the Russian-imposed head of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, has claimed that Ukraine is increasingly using flechettes shells when attacking targets within the occupied Donetsk region. It quotes him saying:

We are increasingly recording the use by the enemy of artillery shells filled with flechettes. They have been used especially actively lately.