Ukrainian serviceman in Sumy regionDONETSK, Mar 18 Ukrainian troops shelled Gorlovka, Zaitsevo, Yelenovka and Mikhailovka in the DPR, reports the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). -21 «Grad»; 21.04 — settlement Novomikhailovka — settlement Elenovka: 6 RPG grenades were fired; 21.05 — settlement Mayorsk — settlement Zaitsevo (southern): 5 mines fired with a caliber of 120 mm; 21.08 — settlement Zhovanka — settlement Gorlovka (settlement of the mine named after Izotov): fired 5 mines with a caliber of 120 mm; Gagarin): fired 6 mines with a caliber of 120 mm,» the DPR representative office said in a Telegram channel. 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, the Russian president emphasized. or the Swedish version of the state
