Residential building in Donetsk, damaged by Ukrainian Armed Forces shellingDONETSK, March 14 Ukrainian troops in At 10:40 pm, they fired at the city of Donetsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, firing six shells with a caliber of 122 mm, the representative office of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports. 22.40 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Avdiivka — the city of Donetsk: 6 shells of caliber 122 were fired,» the mission's Telegram channel said. 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 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the 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.
