A man near a residential building in the Kievsky district of Donetsk, damaged by shelling. Archival photoDONETSK, March 6 Since the beginning of the day, the Ukrainian military have shelled the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic 17 times from «Grads», cannon artillery and mortars, the People's Militia of the DPR reported. «Since the beginning of the current day, the enemy has fired 17 times opened fire on our territory using 122-mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 152 and 122-mm cannon artillery, 120 and 82-mm mortars. Areas of 11 settlements of the republic came under fire, «says Telegram — channel of the People's Militia. 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. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, military groups of the DPR and LPR are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia stressed.The development of the situation is in the online report >>
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