Ukrainian servicemen on the line of contact in the Donetsk region. File photoDONETSK, March 9 Ukrainian troops fired 15 mines of 120mm caliber at the Panteleimonovka settlement in the Donetsk People's Republic, according to the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).
"Fixed shelling from the VFU in the direction… n.p. Panteleymonovka: fired 15 mines with a caliber of 120 mm", the message says.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early on Thursday, February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president stressed.The development of the situation is in the online report>>
Kyiv survived the exodus