Representative of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire. File photoDONETSK, March 26 At 10:00 Ukrainian troops shelled the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, firing ten shells with a caliber of 122 mm, the republic's representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire said on Saturday (JCCC). «Fire was recorded from the AFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 10.00 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Krasnogorovka — the city of Donetsk (Kirov district): 10 shells with a caliber of 122 mm were fired,» the statement says. message published in the Telegram channel of the representative office. 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. Azov» are not Nazis. Because they are not German
