Representative of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire. File photoDONETSK, June 12 Ukrainian troops shelled the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka, firing four shells with a caliber of 122 mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. VFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 15.00 — the settlement of Novgorodskoye — the settlement of Gorlovka (Kalinin district): four shells with a caliber of 122 mm were fired,» the representative office reports in its Telegram channel.
Why Ukraine is not Vietnam and not KoreaThe settlement of Gorlovka has been under the control of the Donetsk People's Republic since 2014, 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 250,000 people.
