Stela at the entrance to Gorlovka. File photoDONETSK, Apr 17Ukrainian troops shelled the settlements of Golmovsky and Gorlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic in 13 minutes, firing a total of 23 mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports. of Ukraine in the following directions: 14.32 Travneve settlement — Golmovsky settlement — from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU): fired 18 mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters; 14.45 Shumy settlement — Gorlovka settlement (Gagarin mine settlement) — from the APU: five mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters,» the representative's Telegram channel said in a message.»Nonhumans, worse than terrorists.» What distinguishes the Ukrainian security forcesGorlovka is located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk, the chemical concern «Stirol» and coal mining enterprises are located in the city. Gorlovka is one of the largest settlements in the DPR, and has been under the control of the republic since 2014. Before the start of the conflict in Donbass, the population of Gorlovka numbered more than 250,000 people. The settlement of Zaitsevo and the settlements of the mines named after Gagarin and 6/7, located on the outskirts, are subjected to the most frequent shelling here. 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 Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and On March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
