The aftermath of the shelling of Donetsk. Archival photoDONETSK, May 17. At 18.52, Ukrainian troops fired six rockets from the BM-21 «Grad» at the Leninsky district of Donetsk, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. .» Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: 18.52 — the settlement of Novomikhailovka — the city of Donetsk (Leninsky district): 6 rockets were fired from the BM-21 «Grad», — the representative office says.
DNR forces took control of 185 settlementsRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who for eight years have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv 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.
