APU shell fragments. File photoDONETSK, Aug 16 Three civilians were wounded in Horlivka when a Ukrainian shell hit a house directly, Mayor Ivan Prikhodko said. : Dolomitnaya street, 38/1, three Gorlovka residents were injured,» Prikhodko wrote in his Telegram channel. Earlier, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire recorded the shelling of Gorlovka at 14.40 and 14.45 Moscow time. Ukrainian troops fired 13 shells with a caliber of 152 millimeters into the city. Gorlovka is located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk, the Stirol chemical concern and coal mining enterprises are located in the city. 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 the Donbass, the population of Gorlovka numbered more than 250 thousand people. The settlement of Zaitsevo and the settlements of the mines named after Gagarin and «6/7», located on the outskirts, are most frequently shelled here. map of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine
