Apartment damaged by a direct shell hit on a residential building in HorlivkaDONETSK, Apr 24 Ukrainian troops fired 55 Grad rockets in Gorlovka in 35 minutes, according to the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). Gorlovka: 40 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad… N. Kudryumovka — N. Gorlovka: 15 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad,” the report says. at 07.55, the second — at 08.30. 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 Kyiv 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.
