Gorlovka mayor specifies number of casualties in AFU strike on city center
Seven civilians were injured as a result of artillery shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) of 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.
"According to the updated data, as a result of shelling of the center of Gorlovka by Ukrainian terrorists suffered seven civilians," he wrote in Telegram-channel.
Earlier in the day, Prikhodko reported that nine people were injured as a result of an AFU attack on the city using artillery.
Earlier in the day, four drones of the AFU shot down in an attempt to attack Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhya region. As a result, no one was injured.
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.
