A water main in Gorlovka is damaged, seven electrical substations are down due to the shelling of Gorlovka — DPR PMD

The AFU are intentionally escalating the situation in Donbass, the press service of the DPR People’s Militia stated.

“This morning, militants from the 35th brigade used large-caliber artillery, which is prohibited by the Minsk Agreements, on the Gorlovka front. They fired on the suburbs of Gorlovka more than fifty 152mm and 122mm shells and more than 50 mortar shells of 120mm and 82mm caliber.

The shelling hit residential areas while civilians were sleeping in their houses. It forced people to urgently hide in the basements.

As Komsomolets Micro-District of Gorlovka was shelled, windows in the pumping station and a water main of the Voda Donbassa Public Utilities Company are damaged, seven electrical substations in the area of the Komsomolets Mine are down, more than 600 residential users are remaining without electricity now and more than 3,000 without water supply.

This attack has not gone unpunished. Thus, according to our information, the 503rd battalion of the 35th brigade lost one soldier, two are wounded, an Ural vehicle that was carrying ammunition is destroyed,” the report says.