A residential building in the Kievsky district of Donetsk, partially destroyed as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. File photoDONETSK, July 3 Ukrainian troops fired 13 152mm shells at Gorlovka and the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk city, according to the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC). «Fire was recorded from the armed formations of Ukraine in the following directions: 14.40 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Nikolaevka-2 — the settlement of Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): five shells with a caliber of 152 millimeters were fired; 14.45 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Nikolaevka- 2 — the settlement of Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): three shells with a caliber of 152 mm were fired; 14.55 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Avdiivka — the city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five shells with a caliber of 152 mm were fired, «the message of the representative office says in Telegram -channel.Earlier, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported that Ukrainian troops once fired on the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk and by firing six shells with a caliber of 122 mm. Gorlovka has been under the control of the DPR since 2014, located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk. On the territory of the city there are coal mining enterprises and the chemical concern Stirol. 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 250,000 people.
