Representative of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire. Archival photoDONETSK, April 16 Ukrainian troops shelled the village of Dolomitnoye in the DPR, according to the republic's representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). According to the department, published in its Telegram channel, the shelling took place at 12.25 p.m., and seven 82mm mines were fired at a village north of Gorlovka. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage of the special operation — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
