Pushilin said there was no military expediency in the AFU strikes on Horlivka

Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) to attack the city of Horlivka in the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) have no military expediency, but they have not stopped so far. This was stated by the head of the DNR Denis Pushilin on December 10.

"We, unfortunately, record drone attacks on Gorlovka, on civilian buses. It is clear that there is no military expediency [in these attacks]," he said during the direct line.

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Earlier, on December 8, the head of Horlivka, Ivan Prikhodko, said that at least seven people were injured in the AFU attack on buses in Horlivka. He specified that the militants dropped an explosive object from a UAV on a bus of route No. 8 in a residential area of the Nikitovsky district.

Before that, on November 21, Pushilin reported that 12 civilians were wounded in Gorlovka after Ukrainian shelling, among them the head of the Nikitovsky district Irina Dzhelomanova. The DNR head added that the Ukrainian side continues senseless shelling of the city, which has no purpose from the military point of view, but is very sensitive for the civilian population.

At the same time, a woman was killed in the 88th quarter of Gorlovka after the AFU attack. In addition, 42 boiler houses stopped their work due to the lack of electricity and water. There was no heating in 888 residential houses in Horlivka.

Ukrainian militants have been shelling the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics, as well as Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions on a daily basis amid the special operation to protect Donbas, the start of which Russia announced on February 24, 2022.