Girl in the center of DonetskDONETSK, Mar 15Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk with 82 mm mines, the republic's representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reported. The shelling was recorded at 21:56. In addition, according to the representative office, at 22:00 the settlement of Mikhailovka was fired from small arms. Earlier, Donetsk Mayor Oleksiy Kulemzin said that a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile was shot down near the Government House in the city center «. As reported and about. Minister of Health of the DPR Alexander Oprishchenko, as a result of the shelling of Donetsk with a Tochka-U rocket by the Ukrainian side, 20 people were killed. The cassette warhead of the Tochka-U missile, like that of other missiles and bombs of this type, opens up in the air and scatters so-called submunitions over a large area, which burst when they reach the ground, inflicting shrapnel damage on people and equipment. The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, General Major Igor Konashenkov said on Monday that the shelling of Donetsk with cluster bombs suggests that the task of the Ukrainian troops was to kill as many civilians as possible. 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 President of Russia emphasized.
