Armored cars of the People's Militia of the DPR at the entrance to Mariupol. File photoDONETSK, Mar 19 Ukrainian troops fired 11 122mm shells at Panteleimonovka in the Donetsk People's Republic on Saturday, according to the DPR office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) «Fixed shelling from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Armed Forces of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 11:00 (coincides with Moscow time) the settlement of Novobakhmutovka — the settlement of Panteleymonovka: 11 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired,» the message published on Telegram reads — channel of representation. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. 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 Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine.
