A sign at the entrance to the town of Yasinovataya in the Donetsk region. File photoDONETSK, Apr 28Ukrainian troops shelled Panteleymonovka and Yasinovataya in the Donetsk People's Republic in an hour, including using the Grad MLRS, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reports. Ed.) in the following directions: 11.45 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Novgorodskoye — the settlement of Panteleimonovka: five missiles were fired from the BM-21 «Grad»; 12.30 — the settlement of Avdeevka — the settlement of Yasinovataya: 10 mines with a caliber of 122 mm were fired; 12.40 — the settlement of Avdiivka — the settlement of Yasinovataya: five missiles were fired from the BM21 «Grad», — the representative office in the Telegram channel says in a message. Yasinovataya is located about 25 kilometers north of Donetsk, it houses the largest railway station in the former USSR. west of the city, which has been controlled by the DPR since 2014, in the direction of Avdiivka, there has been a line of contact with combat positions of Ukrainian troops. 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.
