DPR police officers . File photoDONETSK, March 13Ukrainian troops fired 10 120mm caliber mines at the settlement of Panteleymonovka in the DPR, the republic's representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reports. VFU in the direction: 10.45 — the settlement of Verkhnetoretskoye (northern) — the settlement of Panteleimonovka: 10 mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters were fired,» the representative office said in Telegram. 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.
