The Ukrainian troops at 13.50 shelled the village of Yasinovataya in the Donetsk People’s Republic, firing four shells with a caliber of 122 millimeters, the republic’s representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) said on Sunday.
“Fire was recorded from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction: 13.50 (coincides with Moscow time) – the settlement of Avdiivka – the settlement of Yasinovataya: four shells with a caliber of 122 mm were fired,” reads a message published on the 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 Kiev 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 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president stressed.
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