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An employee of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic. File photoDONETSK, Mar 18 Ukrainian troops fired eight 120mm caliber mines on the Oktyabrskaya mine settlement in Donetsk on Friday, according to the Donetsk People's Republic office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). «Fire was recorded from the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction: 16.00 the settlement of Vodyanoe — the city of Donetsk (the village of the Oktyabrskaya mine), eight mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters were fired,» the mission's Telegram channel said in a message. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev 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 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DNR and LNR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized. NATO». How the Ukrainian army is fighting