An employee of the DPR People's Militia near a shell crater in Gorlovka. File photoDONETSK, June 25Ukrainian troops fired eight 122mm shells at Gorlovka in the DPR, the republic's representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire said. direction: 21.30 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Leninskoye — the settlement of Gorlovka (the village of the Gagarin mine): eight shells with a caliber of 122 mm were fired,» the representative office said in a message on the Telegram channel.
Russian and LPR forces liberated Severodonetsk, Borovskoye, Voronovo and SirotinoGorlovka has been under the control of the DPR 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.
