Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR work at the site of shelling of the residential sector by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. File photoDONETSK, May 31.Multi-apartment residential buildings were damaged in Gorlovka and the Petrovsky district of Donetsk due to shelling by Ukrainian troops, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. shelling of the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) of the following settlements: the settlement of Horlivka (the village of the mine named after V.I. Lenin): Krasnoflotskaya street, 10 — an apartment building; Vaynerov street, 12 — a direct hit on a private house; the city of Donetsk (Petrovsky district): Petrov street, 20/7 — an apartment building,» the message of the representative office in the Telegram channel reads.Ukrainian troops again fired on the Petrovsky district of DonetskThe DPR representative office in the JCCC earlier on Tuesday reported seven attacks on the Petrovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops using shells of 122 and 152 mm calibers. The settlement of Gorlovka was shelled by Ukrainian troops five times, firing 122-millimeter shells, 60-millimeter mines, RPG grenades, and using small arms at it. one person was killed, five more were injured. Since 2014, 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. The Petrovsky district of Donetsk is located on the western outskirts of the capital of the DPR, this is the most distant part of the city from the center. Since 2014, when the DPR declared independence from Kyiv, this area, starting from the line of contact outside the city of Marinka, has been regularly shelled by Ukrainian security forces. />Ukrainian troops shelled Gorlovka and Zheleznaya Balka
