A man demonstrates shell fragments in Donetsk. Archival photoDONETSK, May 10. At 13.05 Ukrainian troops fired ten rockets from the BM27 «Hurricane» at the Kievsky district of Donetsk, the representative office of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports. «Fixed shelling by the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction: 13:05 — the settlement of Avdiivka — the city of Donetsk (Kyiv district): ten missiles were fired from the BM27 «Hurricane», — the message in the Telegram channel of the representative office says. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years. For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out the» 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 inf structure and Ukrainian troops, and on March 25 they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
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