DONETSK, December 21 A civilian was injured in as a result of shelling of Gorlovka by Ukrainian troops, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
“»According to the operational lines of the DPR representative office in the JCCC on December 21, as of 21.00, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic: the settlement of Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): — on Kobylyanskaya Street, 221, a woman born in 1960 was injured «, the representative office said in a message on its Telegram channel.
The DPR representative office in the JCCC earlier on Thursday reported five shellings of Gorlovka by Ukrainian troops.
Gorlovka is located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk, the city is home to the Stirol chemical concern and coal mining enterprises. This is one of the largest populated areas of the DPR; before the start of the conflict in Donbass, the population of Gorlovka numbered more than 250 thousand people.