Stela at the entrance to GorlovkaDONETSK, March 5Humanitarian aid arrived in Gorlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic on Saturday, it was handed over by residents of Donetsk, Yenakiyevo, Shakhtersk to the DPR, Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko said. food, warm clothes, blankets, mattresses, hygiene items and much more,” Prikhodko wrote on his Telegram channel. People's Republic, located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk. On the territory of the city there are coal mining enterprises and the chemical concern Stirol. 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. Before the start of the conflict in Donbass, the population of Gorlovka numbered more than 250,000 people.People in Donbass are not stray dogs, Putin saidThe situation in Donbass has escalated in recent weeks: Kyiv has concentrated most of its army on the line of contact and is regularly shelling the DNR and LNR using banned equipment. Due to the threat of Ukraine's invasion, the DPR and LPR began the evacuation of women, children and the elderly to Russian regions. A general mobilization was announced. In this situation, on February 19, the leaders of the republics turned to Russia with a request to recognize their independence. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized.The development of the situation is in the online report>>
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