Shards of a Grad multiple rocket launcher shell. File photoLUHANSK, April 26Ukrainian troops fired 20 BM-21 Grad missiles at the Irmino settlement in the Luhansk People's Republic on Tuesday, according to the LPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Cessation Regime fire (JCCC). «From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling was recorded: 19.20 (coincides with Moscow time) from the direction of the settlement of Kamyshevakh towards the settlement of Irmino using the BM-21 MLRS (20 shells)», — the message published in Telegram- representative channel. 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 bullying and genocide by the Kyiv 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.
