Shards of ammunition. File photoDONETSK, May 28.Ukrainian troops shelled Yelenovka and Gorlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, using 122 mm artillery, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire said. Novomikhailovka — settlement Elenovka: five shells of 122 mm caliber were fired; 16.20 — settlement of Kodema — settlement of Gorlovka: three shells of 122 mm caliber were fired,» the representative office reported in its Telegram channel. Settlement Gorlovka since 2014, it 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 abuse and genocide by the Kyiv 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 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. Genocide. 2014-2022Genocide of the civilian population of Donbass. Photo evidence of Maxim BlinovDeath, children, old people and women in basements, ruins where houses used to be, people fleeing into the unknown from war and bombing — this photo tape contains part of the photo evidence of the genocide of the civilian population of Donbass, collected by RIA Novosti photographer Maxim Blinov.
