An employee of the People's Militia of the DPR near a shell crater near a Gorlovka school. Archival photoDONETSK, June 19Ukrainian troops fired eight shells of 122 mm caliber at Horlivka at 17.50, according to the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire.» of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 17.50 — settlement Leninskoe — settlement Gorlovka: 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired,» the representative office's Telegram channel said in a message. Horlivka is located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk, in the city there is a chemical concern «Stirol» and coal-mining enterprises. Gorlovka is one of the largest settlements in the DPR, it has been under the control of the republic since 2014. Before the start of the conflict in Donbass, the population of Gorlovka numbered more than 250,000 people. The settlement of Zaitsevo, located on the outskirts, and the settlements of the mines named after Gagarin and «6/7» are subjected to the most frequent shelling here. Russia in Ukraine on 19.06.2022InfographicView
