Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk and Yakovlevka

Ukrainian soldier in Severodonetsk. Archival photoDONETSK, June 13 — RIA Novosti. Ukrainian troops shelled the Kyiv district of Donetsk and the village of Yakovlevka in the Donetsk People's Republic, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for control and coordination of the ceasefire (JCCC). «Fire was recorded from the AFU in the direction: 23.36 — the settlement of Avdiivka — the settlement of Donetsk (Kyevsky district)», the statement says. It is specified that the Ukrainian troops released six shells with a caliber of 152 mm. The shelling of Yakovlevka took place at 23.50. There, the Armed Forces of Ukraine used 122-millimeter ammunition, the JCCC added. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.