Ukrainian soldiers on an armored personnel carrier near Kyiv. File photoDONETSK, Apr 14 Ukrainian troops shelled the Donetsk People's Republic 26 times in a day, firing 198 rounds of ammunition, killing one civilian and wounding three, the DPR office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Cessation Regime reported. fire (JCCC). «Over the past 24 hours, the mission reported 26 facts of firing by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Armed Forces of Ukraine — ed.),» the message on the mission's Telegram channel says. It is noted that «198 units of various ammunition» were fired. , in the Donetsk direction, the enemy used MLRS «Grad» and MLRS «Hurricane», artillery with a caliber of 122 millimeters, in the Gorlovka direction — artillery with a caliber of 122 millimeters and mortars with a caliber of 120 millimeters. — added in the representative office. 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 Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
