Employees at the Tochka-U missile crash site in DonetskMOSCOW, Mar 14 The head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said that after a missile attack on Donetsk «Tochka-U» mourning will be declared. Donetsk Mayor Alexei Kulemzin said earlier that a Ukrainian missile «Tochka-U» was shot down near the Government House in the center. Later, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported 20 dead and nine wounded. The Ministry of Health of the DPR, in turn, reported 16 deaths and hospitalization of 23 injured. specifying when exactly the mourning will be declared. 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 Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
