Stela at the entrance to Gorlovka. File photoDONETSK, April 25 At 13.55 Moscow time, Ukrainian troops shelled Gorlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, firing 13 mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reports. «Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 13.55 — the settlement of Shumy — the settlement of Gorlovka (the village of the mine named after Gagarin): 13 mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters were fired,» the representative office said in a Telegram- canal. The settlement of Gorlovka has been under the control of the Donetsk People's Republic since 2014, 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 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 bullying and genocide by the Kyiv 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 Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. What distinguishes the Ukrainian security forces
