View of a neighboring house through a broken window of a house in Makiivka. File photoDONETSK, May 22.Ukrainian troops shelled the settlement of Makiivka in the Donetsk People's Republic, firing three shells with a caliber of 122 mm, according to the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire.» sides of the AFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 12.45 — the settlement of Avdiivka — the settlement of Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): three shells with a caliber of 122 mm were fired,» the message published on the representative's Telegram channel says. operation in Ukraine on 24 February. 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.
