
DONETSK, May 8. Ukrainian troops shelled Holmovsky and Donetsk in the morning, fired five mines of 120 caliber millimeters and 20 rockets from Gradov, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. 120 mm caliber; 8:15 a.m. — Peski settlement — Donetsk city: 20 rockets were fired from the BM-21 Grad,» the statement says. During the day, the territory of the DPR was shelled 28 times with 238 different ammunition. The mission received information about nine wounded in Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Gorlovka and Yasnoe.More than thirty houses damaged.Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been abused for eight years I mean, genocide by the Kyiv regime.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. , allegedly completed the main tasks of the first stage — they reduced the combat potential of the Ukrainian troops. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.

