A man demonstrates shell fragments in Donbass. File photoDONETSK, June 4Ukrainian troops shelled four settlements in the Donetsk People's Republic, including Gorlovka, in almost two hours, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) said. — Settlement Kodema — Settlement Gorlovka: fired five shells with a caliber of 152 mm; 09.05 — Settlement of Metalist (Ukrainian Travnevoe) — Settlement Golmovsky: fired three mines with a caliber of 82 mm; 09.20 — n. Zaitsevo (Northern) — Dolomitnoe: four mines of 120 mm caliber were fired; channel.
«How to break the chain.» What did the Ukrainian gunners arrange in Donbas? Gorlovka is located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk, the Stirol chemical concern 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. In February of this year, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. 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 «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the 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.
