In the past 24 hours 17 civilians, including three children, were killed in Horlivka and 43 were injured, Horlivka City Council said on Tuesday, July 29.
“In the past 24 hours 17 Horlivka residents died in artillery fire at
the city center. Three children were among them [people killed] and 43
civilians were injured, they have been provided with medical care
necessary,” the Horlivka city council press office said in a statement
on Tuesday, July 29.
Three-day mourning is declared in the city due to these tragic events from July 28.
Fourteen civilians, including five children, were killed in Horlivka
on July 27, the Donetsk regional state administration said on July 28.
Thus, a total of 31 people, including eight children, died in Horlivka in the past two days.
Fierce fighting was under way in Horlivka on July 27 and, according
to the information of the Ukrainian authorities, insurgents shot at
servicemen and residential districts with Grad rocket systems. As a
result, many residential houses, a hospital, department store and
railway station were destroyed.
It emerged in the morning on July 28 that subdivisions of the
Ukrainian army and National Guard consolidated at Horlivka outskirts and
were getting ready to free it.
Residential quarters of Horlivka came under artillery fire again on Tuesday morning, the Interfax correspondent reported.
According to local residents, an evacuation is being carried out in
the city. Free buses, on which civilians can leave the city, operate
from the Horlivka bus station.
The city council reported significant destruction in the city. For
instance, electric transport was stopped due to the damage to a tracking
substation, kindergartens do not work, power was cut at 75 substations
and several villages and mines have no power.
Many residential houses were damaged in artillery strikes on central
streets of Horlivka. Communal services and the population are repairing
damage, the document said.
At the same time, a number of administrative buildings on Lenin
Avenue, Peremohy Avenue, Rudakov and Komsomolskaya streets and streets
adjoining them have been damaged as well.
Two private houses burned down in the Mykytivsky district and two more in the village of Mayskyi.
The upper floor of school No. 85 on Rudakov Street was destroyed and classes will be moved to other education facilities.
