Donetsk, Feb 17 – DAN. The Donetsk-Gorlovka highway has reopened after a brief desruption following a Ukrainian shelling on Friday morning, the mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko said.

"The Gorlovka-Yasinovataya highway (part of the Donetsk-Gorlovka route) has been reopened for traffic," Prikhodko said.

The Ukrainian army has been barraging the DPR and LPR since early Friday morning using 122 mm artillery, anti-tank missiles, guns of heavy equipment, mortars and grenade laucnhers.

The Donetsk-Gorlovka highway was closed this morning following striked on Panteleimonovka and Krasnyi Partizan. *ot