Private residential building in the town of Yasinovataya damaged by shelling. File photoDONETSK, Mar 21Ukrainian troops shelled the village of Yasinovataya in the DPR, firing five 122mm shells, the republic's representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) said. from the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 20.07 — Avdiivka settlement — Yasinovataya settlement: five shells of 122mm caliber were fired,» the DPR representative office said in the Telegram channel.
DPR air defense intercepted two Tochka-U missiles over MakiivkaRussia 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 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.
