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Stela at the entrance to Gorlovka. File photoDONETSK, May 20.News. Ukrainian troops at 16.15 Moscow time fired at the village of the Gagarin mine in Gorlovka, firing eight shells with a caliber of 122 mm, reports the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire. (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Novgorodskoye — the settlement of Gorlovka (village named after Gagarin): eight shells with a caliber of 122 mm were fired,» the representative office's Telegram channel said in a message. The settlement of Gorlovka has been under the control of the Donetsk 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 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, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. What Ukrainian artillerymen did in Donbass