Residential building in Gorlovka, damaged by a shell of Ukrainian Armed ForcesDONETSK, Mar 19 Ukrainian troops opened fire on Gorlovka and Yelenovka, fired more than 20 pieces of ammunition, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. According to the representative office, the shelling was recorded between 18.40 and 20.35. Ukrainian troops fired seven 120-millimeter mines and eight 122-millimeter shells at Horlivka, and seven 122-millimeter shells at Yelenovka. According to the DPR, five shots from a tank were fired at Yelenovka, as well as 40 rockets from the BM-21 Grad, 12 shells with a caliber of 122 millimeters, and six mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters. 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, the Russian president emphasized. Russia used «Dagger» in Ukraine, provocation in Lvov
