Serviceman of the People's Militia of the DPR. File photoDONETSK, Apr 8Yasinovatsky boarding school No. 14 caught fire due to the shelling of the city by Ukrainian troops, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reports. «As a result of the shelling, the building of the Yasinovatsky boarding school No. , nearby housing construction was affected,» the message published on the department's Telegram channel says.»Nonhumans, worse than terrorists.» What distinguishes the Ukrainian security forcesYasinovataya is located about 25 kilometers north of Donetsk, it houses the largest railway station in the former USSR. To the west of the city, which has been controlled by the DPR since 2014, in the direction of Avdiivka, there has been a line of contact with the combat positions of Ukrainian troops for almost eight years. 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 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was the liberation of Donbass. In early March, the DPR drove Ukrainian troops out of Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk. Currently, there are battles for Mariupol, the allied forces of the Russian Federation and the DPR control more than 90% of the area of the largest city on 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 Lisichansk, as well as a number of other settlements of this agglomeration, remain under the rule of Kyiv.
