Consequences of shelling in Dokuchaevsk. Archival photoDONETSK, May 15. At 5.55 a.m. (Moscow time) Ukrainian troops shelled Dokuchaevsk, firing five 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 Regime ceasefire (JCCC). «After 03.00 shelling was recorded from the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 05.55 — Novomikhailovka settlement — Dokuchaevsk settlement: 5 rockets were fired from the BM-21 «Grad», Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» 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 the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
