DPR soldier demonstrates a shell fragment. Archival photoDONETSK, May 8.Ukrainian troops shelled the village of Staromikhailovka, 25 grenades were fired from the AGS, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports. side of the VFU in the direction of… Krasnogorovka — Staromikhaylovka: 25 AGS grenades were fired,» the message says. >Ukrainian troops shelled the building of a kindergarten in GorlovkaIt is noted that the shelling was recorded at 10.45 (coincides with Moscow time). Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Russian 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 the liberation of Donbass. On April 19, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the start of the next phase of the special operation. Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, and Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, have been liberated in the DPR. In the LPR, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, 93% of the former Lugansk region was liberated, within whose borders a republic was proclaimed in 2014. /> Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled Gorlovka and Kirovsky district of Donetsk in five minutes
