Employees of the Russian Emergencies Ministry assist a man at the site of an explosion in the center of DonetskDONETSK, March 15 Over the past day, Ukrainian troops opened fire 42 times on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, a total of 318 pieces of ammunition were used, the republic's representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) said. «Over the past day, the representative office reported 42 facts of firing from outside VFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.),» the representative office said in a statement. According to the daily report of the representative office, weapons such as tanks, artillery, mortars, and small arms were used in the Gorlovka and Donetsk directions. 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 Russian President emphasized. How the Ukrainian army is fighting
