A residential building in the Kievsky district of Donetsk, damaged by shelling. Archival photoDONETSK, Mar 28 An 85-year-old civilian died as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports. The line of the DPR JCCC received information about the death of a civilian born in 1937 at Tavasyan Street, 11 as a result of shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk,» the mission's Telegram channel said. 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. eight 122mm shells
