A house shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Grad MLRS. Archival photoDONETSK, May 28.Ukrainian troops shelled four settlements in the DPR in half an hour, fired five mines, three rockets from the BM-21 «Grad» and seven shells with a caliber of 122 mm, follows from the message of the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC). It is noted that the settlements of Mineralnoye, Vasilyevka, Verkhnetoretskoye and Donetsk came under shelling. Ukrainian troops fired three mines of 120 mm caliber at Mineralny, two mines of the same caliber were fired at Vasilyevka, three BM-21 Grad missiles were fired at Verkhnetoretsky, and seven 122-mm shells were fired at Donetsk. 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.
