An emergency gas service car near a residential building damaged by shelling in Gorlovka. File photoDONETSK, May 8.Ukrainian troops shelled the settlement of Gorlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, firing 40 rockets from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reports. : 12.30 — the settlement of Dzerzhinsk — the settlement of Gorlovka, 40 missiles were fired from the BM-21 «Grad», — the message says in the Telegram channel of the representative office. Gorlovka is located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk, the Stirol chemical concern and coal mining Gorlovka is one of the largest settlements in the DPR, under the control of the republic since 2014. Prior to the conflict in the Donbass, the population of Gorlovka numbered more than 250 thousand people./7″. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Pr 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.
