DONETSK, May 1. of the People’s Republic at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). According to the department, published on the Telegram channel, the incident was recorded at 18:00, 30 shots were fired at the village of Komarov in Gorlovka. Horlivka has been under control since 2014 DPR, it 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 are the settlement of Zaitsevo and the settlements 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 special 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 Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. March completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
