A soft toy in an apartment destroyed by a direct shell hit on a residential building in Horlivka. File photoDONETSK, Mar 27 Ukrainian troops shelled the settlement of Gorlovka in the DPR twice in 15 minutes, firing 15 mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters, according to the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) .According to the representative office, shelling was recorded at 09.30 and 09.45 in the direction of the village of mine named after Izotov and the village of mine named after Gagarin in Gorlovka, in total 15 mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters were fired. 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 President of Russia emphasized.
