A serviceman demonstrates fragments of ammunition in the courtyard of a multi-storey residential building in Donetsk, damaged by shelling. Archival photoDONETSK, May 29. Ukrainian troops at 13.40 (the same time as Moscow time) fired five shells of 122 mm caliber at the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire said (JCCC). «Fire was recorded from the AFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 13.40 — settlement Peski — Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): 5 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired,» the representative office reported in its Telegram channel. 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.
