A house shelled from the Ukrainian Grad MLRS in Yasinovataya. File photoDONETSK, May 16.Ukrainian troops shelled Panteleymonovka, Yasinovataya and Mineralnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic in half an hour, firing eight 122-mm shells and ten rockets from Grad, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports. sides of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Armed Forces of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 18.00 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Novgorodskoye — the settlement of Panteleymonovka: eight shells of 122 mm caliber were fired; 18.20 — the settlement of Avdiivka — the settlement of Yasinovataya: five missiles were fired from BM -21 «Grad»; 18.30 — the settlement of Avdiivka — the settlement of Mineralny: five missiles were fired from the BM-21 «Grad», — the message says. jpg» />Residents of Kherson Chernobaevka told the details of the Ukrainian shellingYasinovataya is located about 25 kilometers north of Donetsk, it houses the largest railway station in the former USSR. To the west of the city, which has been controlled by the DPR forces since 2014, in the direction of Avdiivka, there has been a line of contact with the combat positions of Ukrainian troops for almost eight years. 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. 05/16/2022 InfographicView
