A man carries a cut tree branch in the village of Trekhizbenka in the Luhansk People's Republic. Archival photoLUHANSK, March 19Ukrainian troops shelled the Golubovskoye settlement in the LPR, firing seven 122-mm shells, the LPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) said in a statement.» From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, 1 shelling was recorded: 12.10 Orekhovo-Golubovskoye settlement: 122 mm artillery gun (7 shells),» the representative office said. 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 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. day
