Consequences of the shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. Archival photoDONETSK, May 1.Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk and Yasinovataya in an hour, including rockets from the Grad MLRS, according to the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime ( JCCC). According to the department, published in the Telegram channel, shelling was recorded at 12.43 and 13.40 (coincides with Moscow time). Four missiles from the BM-21 «Grad» were fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. Yasinovataya Ukrainian troops fired three mines caliber 120 millimeters. 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 «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.
