An employee of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic. File photoDONETSK, Apr 2 Ukrainian troops fired 14 122mm shells into the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. VFU in the direction: 11:10 — Krasnogorovka settlement — Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 14 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired,» the report says. 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.
