House shelled with Grad MLRS. Archival photoDONETSK, April 23 At 11.45 Ukrainian troops shelled the settlement of Makiivka in the DPR, firing five rockets from the BM-21 Grad, the representative office of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire said ( JCCC). «Fire was recorded from the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 11.45 — Avdiivka settlement — Makeevka settlement (Dugout settlement): 5 rockets were fired from the BM-21 «Grad», 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 and genocide by the Kyiv 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. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only in terms of 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.
