A man demonstrates shell fragments in Donetsk. File photoDONETSK, Apr 1Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk twice in ten minutes, firing 11 122mm and three 152mm shells, the Donetsk People's Republic office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Cessation Regime said. fire (JCCC). As the representative office writes on its Telegram channel, the Ukrainian military at 10.30 Moscow time fired six shells of 122 mm caliber in the Kievsky district of Donetsk, at 10.40 Moscow time — five shells of 122 mm caliber and three shells of 152 mm caliber in the Petrovsky district of the city. It is reported that the shelling was carried out from the settlements of Krasnogorovka and Avdeevka. 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 Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
