An employee of the People's Militia of the DPR near a shell crater near the Gorlovka school. File photoDONETSK, June 15 Secondary school No. 31 and a number of apartment buildings were damaged as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops of residential areas in the Central City district of Gorlovka, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR said. «VFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) attacked Gorlovka, school No. 31 was under fire. As a result of the shelling of residential areas of the Central City district of Gorlovka, Ukrainian shells damaged secondary school No. 31 on Lenin Street, and a number of residential buildings were also damaged there, «- the headquarters' Telegram channel said. Wednesday reported five shelling of Gorlovka by Ukrainian troops using shells of 122 and 152 mm calibers. Gorlovka is located 50 kilometers to the north of Donetsk, in the city there is a chemical concern «Stirol» and coal mining enterprises. 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 most frequent shelling here is on the outskirts of the village of Zaitsevo and the villages of the mines named after Gagarin and «6/7».
