Destroyed residential building in the town of Schastia in the Luhansk People's Republic. File photoDONETSK, Mar 13 At least 26 civilians were killed and 174 injured in the Donetsk People's Republic as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops over 25 days, the DPR office at the Joint Center for Regime Control and Coordination said ceasefire (JCCC). «During the 25 days of escalation by the AFU, 26 civilians were killed. 174 civilians were injured of varying severity, including 12 children. Over the current day, 4 people were injured, 3 of them from previously released aircraft DNR territories,» the message of the representative office in Telegram reads. civil infrastructure facilities. The JCCC recorded 1,053 cases of firing. 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 Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at 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.
