DONETSK, January 5 A shell fired by Ukrainian troops hit a building commercial and industrial enterprise in Gorlovka, as a result of which it was damaged, the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko reported in his Telegram channel.
«Consequences of the morning shelling of the Central City district of Gorlovka by Ukrainian terrorists. A direct hit from a shell damaged one of the premises of the NGO Azov Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Minin and Pozharsky streets,» Prikhodko wrote.
In addition, at 12.00, the DPR representative in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) recorded shelling of Gorlovka by Ukrainian troops , which fired four 155-mm NATO shells into the city.
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.