Ukrainian troops shelled Yasinovataya and Mikhailovka

A man demonstrates shell fragments in a crater near an electrical substation in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Archival photoDONETSK, May 21. Ukrainian troops shelled Yasinovataya and Mikhailovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, fired five rockets from the BM-21 «Grad» and eight shells with a caliber of 122 mm, according to the DPR representative office at the Joint Control Center and coordination of the ceasefire regime (JCCC). «Fire was recorded from the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the directions: 20.35 — settlement Avdiivka — settlement Yasinovataya: five rockets were fired from the BM-21 «Grad» … 20.40 — settlement of Novgorodskoye — settlement of Mikhailovka: 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired,» the representative office said in the Telegram channel.Where calls to eradicate the Russian world will take Europe Yasinovataya is located about 25 kilometers north of Donetsk and houses the largest railway station in the former USSR. 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.