Ukrainian servicemen loading a BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systemDONETSK, Sep 4 Ukrainian troops shelled Zaitsevo and Horlivka, firing 18 152-mm shells and seven rockets from the BM-21 Grad MLRS, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reports. shelling by armed formations of Ukraine in the following directions: 08:10 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Dyleevka — the settlement of Zaitsevo, six shells of 152 mm caliber were fired; 08:40 — the settlement of Dyleevka — the settlement of Zaitsevo, eight shells of 152 caliber were fired millimeter; 09:00 — the settlement of Belaya Gora — the settlement of Zaitsevo, seven missiles were fired from the MLRS BM-21 «Grad»; 09:05 — the settlement of Dyleevka — the settlement of Gorlovka (Tsentralno-city district), four shells of 152 mm caliber were fired,” the representative office said in a statement on the Telegram channel. In total, the territory of the DPR was shelled 44 times in a day. This is one of the largest settlements of the former Donetsk region of Ukraine, it has been under the control of the DPR 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, as well as the settlements of the mines named after Gagarin and «6/7» are subjected to the most frequent shelling here. :18InfographicsInteractive map of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine
