Destroyed APU equipment near Severodonetsk. Archival photoLUGANSK, March 19Ukrainian troops fired at the settlement of Donetsk in the LPR, fired 20 mines, the LPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports. «From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine 1 shelling was recorded … Novotoshkivske-Donetsk settlement: 82 mm mortar (20 min),” the report says. It is noted that the shelling was recorded at 10.30. 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 Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine. benefits
