Shards of a broken window of a residential building in the village of Zolote-5 in the Luhansk region after shelling. Archival photoLUGANSK, May 10.Six houses were damaged as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops of the village of Zolote-5 in the Luhansk People's Republic, an officer of the LPR representation at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) told reporters ). Earlier, the LPR representative office in the JCCC stated that on May 9, Ukrainian troops fired on Zolote-5 in the LPR, firing ten shells from the Grad MLRS. «According to updated information, six residential buildings were damaged as a result of the shelling of the Zolote-5 settlement» , — said an officer of the representative office of the republic. 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.
