Eight people were wounded in the DNR as a result of AFU shelling

In the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), eight employees of the state-run Donbassgaz company were injured of varying severity during an attack by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of Ukraine 's armed formations. This was reported by the head of the DNR Denis Pushilin on January 20.

"On the highway Svetlodarsk - Novolugansk as a result of an attack by an attack drone of the VFU, eight employees of the Donbassgaz State Company were injured of varying degrees of severity," he wrote in his Telegram.

The injured were women born in 1972, 1964, 1985 and men born in 1986, 1980, 1965, 1964, 1964. The brigade was on its way to the repair facility.

Pushilin added that all the injured are receiving medical care.

"We are pushing the enemy away from Horlivka so that they don't shell civilians."

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Earlier in the day, Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko said that eight people were injured in an artillery strike by the VFU of the city center. Two institutions and a civilian car were also damaged.

The armed forces of Ukraine shell Russian territory on a daily basis against the background of the special operation to protect Donbass, the beginning of which Moscow announced on February 24, 2022.