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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
Intensive artillery fire continued overnight Monday in Gorlovka in Donetsk as ten residential buildings were hit and two civilians were said to have been killed, according to Russian language news accounts.
According to a news report which appeared in korrespondent.net, sourced from a local Gorlovka website and social media, on the night of July 27th to July 28th Ukrainian artillery hit several sectors of the town including Nikitovsky district and downtown. Streets where artillery struck include Muzikaya Shkola, Krasnoznamyanskaya, Zagorodnyaya and Sovietski Armii.
According to a VKontakte webpage, of the two residents killed in the overnight artillery, one was found underneath rubble on ulitsa General Kondratenko, reportedly an unidentified woman her 70s. Another unidentified woman found dead earlier was in her 80s.
Gas and electrical systems in the city were said to have been hit as well, but both have been restored, according to data supplied by the Donetsk ministry of defense website. A separate Donetsk ministry of defense web page said that the artillery originated from the town of Dzerzhinsk, to the west of Gorlovka.
Ukrainian media including government media said that the artillery in Gorlovka was part of an artillery duel between rebel and Ukrainian artillery shooters. Ukrainian media also said that rebel artillery fired on targets in nearby Kurdyumovka, Svetlodarsk and Maiorsk. Rebel artillery firing was said to have originated in Uglegorsk, which is near Debaltsevo, and was said to be 152mm artillery.
A total of 46 instances of ceasefire violations by Ukrainian forces were said to have been recorded by Donetsk officials since Monday. Locales struck include western suburbs of Donetsk city, including Oktyabrsky and Kuibyshevskiy districts. Zaitsevo was also hit as well as southern Donetsk towns of Sahanka and Dokuchaevsk.
Among the weapons the Ukrainians used were 122mm and 152mm artillery, 125mm tank guns and 120mm and 82mm mortars.
Ukrainian media said that fighting near Krasnogorovka and Marinka has intensified in the last 24 hours, including the use of 120mm mortar fire. Additionally, rebel forces are said to have added new forces in Aleksandrovka Staromihaylovke in western Donetsk city.
According to a news post in tsnesor.net, rebel 120mm mortars hit Travneva, which is near Peski, and 122mm artillery hit Ukrainian positions in Avdievka and Opytnoye.
Ukrainian media said that rebel forces have violated the ceasefire a total of 47 times in the past 24 hours.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.