JCCC officer at the building damaged by shelling. File photoLUGANSK, April 22 On Friday, Ukrainian troops fired six shells from the BM-30 Smerch rocket launcher at the settlement of Novoaidar in the Lugansk People's Republic, the LPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Regime reported. ceasefire (JCCC). «From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded: 19:25 (coincides with Moscow time) from the direction of the settlement of Novodruzhesk towards the settlement of Novoaidar using the BM-30 Smerch MLRS (six 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 Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. 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.
