A man clears rubble from a shell hitting a house in HorlivkaDONETSK, March 11 On Friday, Ukrainian troops fired on a boarding school for the elderly and disabled in Gorlovka, Donetsk People's Republic, the mayor of the city, Ivan Prikhodko, said. disabled people with a geriatric department in the city of Gorlovka, located in the village of Kondratievsky on Sanatornaya St., 5,» Prikhodko wrote in his Telegram channel. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 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 Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized. LC
