A multi-storey building damaged by shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. File photoDONETSK, Mar 28The gas pipeline was interrupted in the Kievsky district of Donetsk due to shelling by Ukrainian troops, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR said. and a fire broke out at a house on Orbity St. Militants are shelling the center of the Kievsky district indiscriminately, the shells landed in densely populated areas near the shopping center «Donetsk City,» the headquarters' Telegram channel said. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only in terms of military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the RF Armed Forces, the forces of the DPR and LPR are developing an offensive, but about the occupation of Ukraine out of the question, the President of Russia stressed.
