A man demonstrates shell fragments after shelling a residential area by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Archival photoDONETSK, June 6Ukrainian troops fired six 122-mm shells at the settlement of Mineralnoye in the DPR, the representative office of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime reports. of the armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 08.50 (coincides with Moscow time) — Avdiivka settlement — Mineralnoe settlement: 6 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired,» the representative office's Telegram channel said in a message. 
Ukrainian troops shelled Yasinovataya with large-caliber minesRussia 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.
