OREANDA-NEWS Ukrainian troops attacked the territory of the DPR five times on Wednesday, using barrel artillery and an attack drone, and an employee of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations was injured, the head of the republic, Denis Pushilin, said.

"Five armed attacks have been carried out by the armed formations of Ukraine. They used 155 mm barrel artillery and an attack UAV," Pushilin wrote on his Telegram channel.

Earlier, the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the DPR reported that an EMERCOM employee was injured due to an attack on a car by an APU drone in Gorlovka, he was taken to the hospital.

According to the office of the administration of the head and government of the DPR for the documentation of war crimes of Ukraine, since the beginning of the day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have fired at least five 155 mm NATO shells at Gorlovka and dropped an explosive object from a drone.

Gorlovka is located 50 kilometers north of Donetsk. The chemical concern Styrol and coal mining enterprises are located in the city. This is one of the largest settlements of the DPR, before the outbreak of the conflict in Donbass, the population of Gorlovka numbered more than 250 thousand people.