DPR military equipment on the road on the outskirts of Mariupol. Archival photoDONETSK, March 19 The representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reported two injured civilians from territories previously liberated by the People's Militia of the DPR.» The Ministry of Health of the DPR received information about the wounding of two civilians from the territories previously liberated by the NM of the DPR,» the representative office said. On the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a woman was injured. Both of them are hospitalized. No other details were released. 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 DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. 15InfographicsHow the situation in Donbass developedInfographicsView
