Courtyard of a residential building damaged by shelling in the city of Dokuchaevsk, Donetsk region. Archival photoDONETSK, May 14. Ukrainian troops shelled Dokuchaevsk, fired 10 rockets from the BM-21 Grad, according to the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).» Shelling was recorded from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Armed Forces of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 17.35 — settlement Novomikhailovka — settlement Dokuchaevsk: 10 rockets were fired from the BM-21 «Grad», — the message of the representative office in the Telegram channel says .Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of “protecting 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, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
