A soldier demonstrates fragments of ammunition in the courtyard of a multi-storey residential building in Donetsk, damaged by shelling. File photoDONETSK, Mar 15Ukrainian troops are shelling the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, Mayor Oleksiy Kulemzin said on Tuesday morning. to cellars or hiding places!» — Kulemzin wrote in the Telegram channel. Earlier on Monday, a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile was shot down near the Government House in the center of Donetsk. The victims of the missile attack were 20 people, another 36 were injured. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, who arrived at the scene of the tragedy, said that the rocket was equipped with cluster munitions. The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said on Monday that the shelling of Donetsk with cluster bombs suggests that the task of the Ukrainian troops was to kill as many civilians as possible. residents. 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 there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized.
