Representative of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire. Archival photoLUGANSK, April 18 Ukrainian troops fired 12 shells from the BM-30 Smerch MLRS at the Novoaydar settlement in the Lugansk People's Republic on Monday, the LPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination reported of the ceasefire regime (JCCC). «From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded: 17.45 Moscow time from the direction of the settlement of Novodruzhesk to the settlement of Novoaidar with the use of BM-30 Smerch MLRS (12 shells),» the representative office said .Russia 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, they 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 called the liberation of Donbass.
