Grad multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) in operation. Archival photoDONETSK, June 4 Ukrainian troops fired at 17.40 (coincides with Moscow time) Horlivka, fired 10 rockets from «Grad», according to the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) .»Fire was recorded from the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 17.40 — the settlement of Dzerzhinsk — the settlement of Gorlovka: 10 rockets were fired from the BM-21 Grad,» the report says. Horlivka is located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk, the city is home to the chemical concern «Stirol» and coal mining enterprises.Gorlovka is one of the largest settlements of the DPR, under the control of the republic since 2014. Before the conflict in the Donbass, the population of Gorlovka totaled more than 250 thousand people. the settlement of Zaitsevo and the settlements of the Gagarin and 6/7 mines located on the outskirts are being shelled here. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been subjected to abuse 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 Donbas. .jpg» />14:05InfographicMap of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine as of 04.06.2022According to the statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have 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.
