An emergency gas service car near a residential building damaged by shelling in Horlivka. File photoDONETSK, May 30. A kindergarten building and a gas pipeline in Horlivka, in the Donetsk People's Republic, were damaged by shelling by Ukrainian troops, Mayor Ivan Prikhodko said on Monday. According to updated information, the equipment was damaged at LLC Trading House «Gornyak» along the street Uglegorskoe shosse, 309a; a Ukrainian shell exploded near kindergarten No. 109 along Paustovsky street, 40 (Kalinin district of the city), the building received shrapnel damage. Kalininskaya». In the urban-type settlement of Panteleimonovka (Central-City district of Gorlovka) along Pervomaiskaya Street, 73, a gas pipeline was damaged, emergency work is being carried out,» the mayor wrote in his Telegram channel. He added that due to the shelling in the urban-type settlement of Golmovsky in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, a transformer substation was de-energized, part of the village was left without electricity. Since 2014, the settlement of Gorlovka has been tsya 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.
