A residential building in the center of the town of Yasinovataya, damaged by shelling. Archival photoDONETSK, April 14Ukrainian troops shelled the Yasinovatsky Machine-Building Plant from the BM-21 Grad MLRS, reports the headquarters of the territorial defense of the Donetsk People's Republic. ten missiles fired.
Ukrainian troops fired at Yasinovataya from «Gradov» 21 «Grad», — the message of the headquarters in Telegram reads.Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been subjected to bullying, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» 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. March, 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. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on April 14, 90% of tanks and other armored vehicles of Ukraine (2179 out of 2416 tanks that were in the Ukrainian troops on February 24), 86% of the military aircraft (131 out of 152), 69% of the helicopter fleet (104 out of 149) and so on. According to the head of the department, Sergei Shoigu, the Air Force and Air Defense of Ukraine «are practically destroyed», and the Navy «ceased to exist.» caliber 122 mm
