A multi-storey residential building in the DPR, damaged by shelling by Ukrainian Armed ForcesDONETSK, March 19 Two villages in the Donetsk People's Republic are de-energized as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reports. the village of Pobeda is de-energized,» the representative office reports in Telegram. As indicated in the message, 36 transformer substations and 38 boiler houses were disconnected. The Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR also reported in Telegram that a number of social facilities were de-energized in Gorlovka, including a school and a kindergarten. «Repair and restoration work will begin as soon as the situation permits,» the message says. 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 Russian Armed Forces, the DNR and LNR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. evacuation of Ukrainians to Russia
