DONETSK, August 15 Ukrainian troops fired 11 NATO 155-mm shells at Gorlovka, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
«»Shelling from the armed formations of Ukraine was recorded in the direction: 21.10 (coincides with Moscow time — ed.) — the settlement of Dzerzhinsk — the settlement of Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): three 155-mm shells,» the department said in a statement published on its Telegram channel.
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In addition, from 21:30 to 22:30, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired eight shells of the same caliber at the Nikitovsky and Central-City districts of Gorlovka.
Gorlovka is located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk, the city is home to the chemical concern «Stirol» and coal mining enterprises. This is one of the largest settlements in the DPR, before the conflict in Donbass, the population of Gorlovka was more than 250 thousand people.
Artillery of 155 mm caliber is used by NATO countries. The United States supplied Ukraine with long-range howitzers M777 of 155 mm caliber, Ukrainian troops actively use them to shell the cities of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. Also, the Ukrainian troops were supplied with German self-propelled artillery units PzH 2000, Polish self-propelled guns Krab and French self-propelled guns CAESAR, using shells of this caliber.