A house shelled from the Ukrainian Grad MLRS in Yasinovataya. File photoDONETSK, May 26. Ukrainian troops shelled Yasinovataya in the Donetsk People's Republic on Thursday, firing ten rockets from the Grad MLRS, the DPR office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) said. «Fire was recorded from the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 17.38 — settlement Avdiivka — settlement Yasinovataya: 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 «Grad»,» the representative office reports in its Telegram -canal. Yasinovataya 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 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 the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
