An employee of the People's Militia of the DPR near a shell crater near a Gorlovka school. File photoDONETSK, Apr 26 Ukrainian troops shelled Gorlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, firing 15 shells of 122mm caliber, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) said in its Telegram- channel.
"Fixed shelling from the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine. — Ed.) in the direction: 0:37 — n.p. Majorsk — n.p. Gorlovka (village of the Gagarin school): 15 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired, the representative office reported.
On February 24, Russia launched a military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. According to President Vladimir Putin, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» Ukraine. The main task in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.