A man displays shell fragments. Archival photoLUHANSK, May 1. A 55-year-old man died as a result of shelling of the settlement of Stakhanov by Ukrainian troops, the LPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports. «As a result of yesterday's incident, shelling of the village of Stakhanov, a man born in 1967 was killed, a residential building and a 0.4 kV power line were damaged. 40 subscribers were left without electricity,» the message says.
Ukrainian troops shelled the DPR 12 times in a day. Earlier it was reported that Ukrainian troops shelled the village of Stakhanov in the Lugansk People's Republic, firing 20 shells from the BM-21 Grad MLRS. 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 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.
