A man drives a car near a house in Volnovakha that was destroyed during the fighting. Archival photoDONETSK, March 12 Ukrainian troops fired at the village of Oleksandrivka near Donetsk, fired six 120mm mines, at 11.00 Moscow time the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the town of Staromikhailivka, fired five mines of 120mm caliber, the representative office reported DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). As the department notes in the Telegram channel, the shelling of Aleksandrovka occurred from the side of the settlement of Marinka. — Settlement Staromikhaylovka: 5 mines with a caliber of 120 mm were fired,» the agency said in a 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 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 the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
