A multi-storey building damaged by Ukrainian Armed Forces shelling, DonetskMOSCOW, March 13Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed to continue recording and investigating the circumstances of new shelling in the Donetsk People's Republic, according to the website of the Investigative Committee. , — the report says. It is noted that, according to the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire, Ukrainian troops opened fire on the DPR 33 times a day, using 496 pieces of ammunition. As a result of the attacks, four civilians were injured. It is added that the investigation continues to collect evidence of these attacks for further investigation of the criminal activities of the Ukrainian military. 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 Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, but not for the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as of March 7, 474 civilians were killed and 861 injured during the conflict. These statistics take into account, among other things, losses in the territories of the DPR and LPR, which, according to UNHCHR estimates, account for 24 dead and 112 injured. Against the backdrop of hostilities in a large number of cities and villages in Ukraine, a humanitarian catastrophe is emerging. The RF Ministry of Defense lays responsibility for this on the Kiev authorities, who refuse to coordinate the work of humanitarian corridors. The RF Ministry of Defense also lays the blame on local nationalists, who in some cases keep civilians as human shields. residents with everything they need
