Ukrainian servicemen on the line of contact in the Donetsk region. Archival photoDONETSK, March 15 At 08.10 Ukrainian troops shelled the village of Panteleimonovka in the DPR, firing six 120mm mines, the republic's representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports. shelling from the AFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 08:10 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Verkhnetoretskoe — the settlement of Panteleimonovka: 6 mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters were fired,» the message published on the Telegram channel says representative offices. 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. How the Ukrainian army is fighting
