A resident removes rubble from a house in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, which was destroyed by shelling. Archival photoDONETSK, March 11Ukrainian troops shelled the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic three times with 120 mm caliber mines in 15 minutes, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported on Friday. Trudovskaya were fired three times with 11 mines of 120 mm caliber. 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 President of Russia emphasized.
