The shelling of Gorlovka on Tuesday Evening was conducted from the standpoint of Ukrainian infantry battalion, told reporters Deputy head of the headquarters of the militia DND Eduard Bacurin.

first it claimed that on Tuesday Evening Gorlovka came under massive fire from the positions of the APU. It was claimed that the Shelling was conducted from the Mayors and Dzerzhinsk, controlled by Ukrainian forces.

"In the evening Gorlovka suffered massive tank attack from the 11-th separate mechanized infantry battalion" - said Basurin.

He added that also in the Evening under fire was the Shanka. According to his statement, as a result of the shelling of the Shanka were damaged 7 buildings.

"In just the past day received damage as a result of shelling by the AFU among civilians and militia there," - said Basurin.

He said that the DNR is ready to repel an attack in case of the outbreak of the active phase of hostilities from Ukraine.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 5 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

The last document is dated 12 February - in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone, obliges the Authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in local elections, entering into the Constitution of Ukraine of change, involving the decentralization of Power, as well as on the issue of legislative recognition of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".

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