A house in the town of Rovenky, Luhansk People's Republic, damaged by a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile. File photoLUHANSK, April 5Ukrainian military fired mortars on the village of Kalinovo in the Lugansk People's Republic on Tuesday, damaging a school building and two residential buildings, the republic's representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire said. (JCCC). «As a result of the mortar shelling of the village of Kalinovo, a school and two residential buildings were damaged,» an officer of the LPR representative office said. Donetsk and AleksandrovkaRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. 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.
