Stela at the entrance to the city of Gorlovka in the Donetsk region. File photoDONETSK, Mar 8Ukrainian troops shelled Gorlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic with four shells of 122 mm caliber, the representative office of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. 10 — N. Novgorodskoye — N. Gorlovka (settlement of Lenin sh-you): four shells with a caliber of 122 mm were fired, «the representative office of the DPR in the JCCC said.
«Ridiculous» genocide: why Europe does not see the Nazis in Ukraine , Pobeda and Nizhny Khutor,» the representative office said. The headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR clarified that after the shelling of Gorlovka, more than two thousand subscribers are left without power supply. Gorlovka has been under the control of the DPR since 2014, the city is 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. Before the start of the conflict in Donbass, the population of Gorlovka numbered more than 250 thousand people. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at 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 talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized.The development of the situation is in the online report>>
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