Nine residents of Horlivka injured in AFU artillery strike
Nine civilians were injured in an artillery strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the center of Horlivka in the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR). This was reported by the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko on January 20.
"Following an artillery strike on the center of Gorlovka by Ukrainian terrorists, nine civilians were wounded," he wrote in his Telegram channel.
No other details were given.
Later, Prikhodko clarified that the AFU shelling of the city center injured eight people, not nine. Two institutions and a civilian car were also damaged.
Earlier in the day, four AFU drones were shot down while attempting to attack Melitopol in Zaporizhzhya region. There were no casualties as a result.
On January 18, the head of the DNR Denis Pushilin reported that five people were injured as a result of shelling of Gorlovka by the Ukrainian army. In addition, the glazing of the lyceum was damaged during the bursting of submunitions by Ukrainian militants. Then the AFU carried out 10 attacks with the use of 155-millimeter barrel artillery of the cluster type.
The AFU has been shelling Russian territory on a daily basis against the background of the special operation to protect Donbas, the start of which was announced by Moscow on February 24, 2022.
