One of the destroyed houses in the village of Sopino in the Donetsk People's RepublicDONETSK, March 9On Wednesday, Ukrainian troops shelled the settlements of Gorlovka and Luhanske in the Donetsk People's Republic, firing 8 grenades from RPGs and 29 grenades from AGS, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports. armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 16:30 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Chigiri — the settlement of Gorlovka (the village of the mine named after Gagarin): 6 grenades were fired from an RPG; 16:50 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement Novomikhailovka — Luhanske settlement: 2 RPG grenades and 29 AGS grenades were fired, small arms were also used,» the representative office said in a statement on the Telegram channel. .jpg» />Ukraine is turning into SomaliaGorlovka has been under the control of the DPR since 2014, the city is located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk. On the territory of the city there are coal mining enterprises and the chemical concern Stirol. Gorlovka is one of the largest cities in the DPR. The most frequently shelled areas of Gorlovka at the moment are the village of Zaitsevo and the villages of mines named after Gagarin and «6/7» located on the outskirts of the city. Before the start of the conflict in Donbass, the population of Gorlovka numbered more than 250 thousand people. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian president emphasized.The development of the situation is in the online report>>
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