A residential building in Donbass damaged by shelling. File photoDONETSK, Mar 12 Ukrainian troops again shelled the village of Oleksandrivka in the Donetsk People's Republic, using 122mm shells, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) said. According to the representation, the shelling was recorded on 15.05, five shells of 122 mm caliber were fired at the settlement.
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Earlier on Saturday, the DPR representation The JCCC recorded the shelling of Aleksandrovka with six 120mm mines. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. 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.