A sign at the entrance to the town of Yasinovataya in the Donetsk region. File photoDONETSK, May 20.Ukrainian troops again fired at the city of Yasinovataya in the Donetsk People's Republic, firing five rockets from the Grad MLRS, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire said. shelling from the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction: 18.50 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Avdiivka — the settlement of Yasinovataya: five missiles were fired from the BM-21 «Grad», — the message in the Telegram channel of the representative office says. Yasinovataya is located at about 25 kilometers north of Donetsk, it houses the largest railway station in the former USSR.West of the city, which has been controlled by the DPR since 2014, in the direction of Avdiivka, there has been a line of contact with Ukrainian military positions for almost eight years.Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been subjected to bullying for eight years you, genocide by the Kyiv regime.» 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.
