Broken window and shell casings on the windowsill in a residential buildingDONETSK, Apr 17 Ukrainian troops at 19.15 shelled the village of Shirokaya Balka in the Donetsk People's Republic, firing five mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters, according to the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). — the settlement of Shirokaya Balka: five mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters were fired,» the mission's Telegram channel said in a statement. 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.
