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DONETSK, March 21 At 18.35 Ukrainian troops shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk using BM-21″ Grad», 20 rockets were fired, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) said in a statement. «Fire was recorded from the AFU in the direction of 18.35 — the settlement of Krasnogorovka — the city of Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 20 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad, the representative office said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been subjected to abuse 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. 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 stressed.