
DPR soldiers stand at a military mobilization point in DonetskMOSCOW, Feb. 24 One civilian killed , five were injured during the shelling of Gorlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, said the head of the city administration Ivan Prikhodko. Earlier, the head of the administration reported four victims.The administration of Gorlovka reported four injured during the shelling «According to updated information on Mamedov St., 22 — five wounded, one dead (civilian)», Prikhodko said in a statement on the Telegram channel. Since 2014, the settlement of Horlivka has been under the control of the Donetsk Republic, located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk. On the territory of the city there are coal mining enterprises and the chemical concern Stirol. Gorlovka is one of the largest cities in the DPR. The most frequently shelled areas of Gorlovka at the moment are the village of Zaitsevo and the villages of mines named after Gagarin and «6/7» located on the outskirts of the city. Prior to the start of the conflict in Donbass, the population of Gorlovka numbered more than 250,000 people. Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier that he had decided on a special military operation against Ukraine. In a televised address to the Russians, he said that the circumstances «require decisive and immediate action from us, the people's republics of Donbass turned to Russia with a request for help.» The President of the Russian Federation stated that the entire responsibility for the bloodshed would be on the conscience of the ruling regime in Ukraine, and called on the Ukrainian military not to follow the criminal orders of the Ukrainian authorities, to lay down their arms and go home. artillery strikes on the cities of Ukraine. According to the agency, military infrastructure, air defense facilities, military airfields, aviation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are disabled by high-precision weapons. The ministry clarified that nothing threatens the civilian population.The development of the situation in Donbass is in the online report>>
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