Gorlovka. File photoDONETSK, April 24Ukrainian security forces shelled Gorlovka three times in 35 minutes, follows from messages on the Telegram channel of the Donetsk People's Republic representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire. The first shelling was recorded at 6 :45 local time. The fire was fired from the side of Mayorsk in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka. In total, the APU fired 10 mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters. The second shelling followed at 7:05 from Dzerzhinsk — three shells with a caliber of 122 millimeters; the third — 15 minutes later, five 122-mm shells were fired at the village of the Lenin mine. Gorlovka is located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk. This is one of the largest settlements in the DPR — before the start of the conflict in the Donbass, the population numbered more than 250 thousand people, the Stirol chemical concern and coal mining enterprises are located there. Most often, Zaitsevo and the villages of the mines named after Gagarin and 6/7 are subjected to shelling. On February 24, Russia launched a military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. According to President Vladimir Putin, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» Ukraine. The main task in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
