A multi-storey residential building in Donetsk, damaged by shelling. File photoDONETSK, Mar 14 Five civilians, including a child, were injured when Ukrainian troops shelled the territories liberated by the DPR people's militia, which were previously under the control of Ukrainian troops, according to the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and coordination of the ceasefire regime (JCCC). «In the operational line, the Ministry of Health of the DPR received information about the wounding as a result of shelling of the VFU of five civilians from the territories previously liberated by the people's militia of the DPR: a woman born in 1974, a woman born in 1974, a man born in 1972, woman, born in 1977, girl, born in 2014,» the message reads. Ukraine February 24th. 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 there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia stressed.
