One of the residential buildings damaged as a result of hostilities in Uglegorsk. Archival photoDONETSK, March 27Ukrainian troops at 10.40 fired at the settlement of Shirokaya Balka in the DPR, firing eight mines with a caliber of 120 mm, the representative office of the republic in the JCCC reports. Shirokaya Balka: 8 mines with a caliber of 120 mm were fired,» the representative office said in a message on the 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 DNR and LNR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. (southern)
