Shards of a Grad multiple rocket launcher. Archival photoDONETSK, May 29. At 13.30 (the time coincides with Moscow time) Ukrainian troops fired ten rockets from the Grad MLRS at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, and at 13.40 — six shells of 122 mm caliber at Yelenovka in Donetsk People's Republic, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) said. district): 10 rockets were fired from the BM-21 «Grad»; 13.40 — settlement Novomikhailovka — settlement Yelenovka: 6 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired,» the representative office reports in its Telegram channel. Petrovsky district of Donetsk is located on the western outskirts of the capital of the DPR, it is the most distant part of the city from the center. Since 2014, when the DPR declared independence from Kyiv, the area, starting from the line of contact outside the city of Marinka, has been regularly shelled by Ukrainian troops. 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 genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the main tasks of the first stage were completed — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. On April 19, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the start of the next phase of the special operation.
