A serviceman demonstrates fragments of ammunition in the courtyard of a residential building in Donetsk, damaged by shelling. Archival photoDONETSK, April 6 Since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian troops have fired more than 100 large-caliber shells and mines on the territory of the DPR, including using Uragan multiple launch rocket systems, the People's Militia of the republic reports. At the beginning of the current day, the enemy fired more than a hundred shells and mines from 220-mm BM-27 Uragan multiple launch rocket systems, 122-mm cannon artillery and 82-mm mortars,» reads a message published on the Telegram channel of the People's Militia. It is noted that the areas of seven settlements of the DPR came under shelling. 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 genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. ambush». How the United States will arm the Ukrainian army The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. In the DPR, Ukrainian troops were driven out of Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk; there are battles for Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov. In the LPR, according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense on March 25, 93% of the territory of the former Lugansk region was taken under control. Only the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysichansk, as well as a number of other settlements of this agglomeration, remain under the authority of Kyiv.
