21 civilians wounded in DPR per day

DPR Army BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle near a destroyed apartment building in MariupolMOSCOW, Apr 4 > During the day, 21 civilians were wounded in the DPR, including one child, but for the first time «Gradami» the territory of the republic was not fired upon, said the representative of the People's Militia of the DPR Eduard Basurin. territory… The day also passed with artillery shelling… We have 21 civilians injured, one of them is a child. Basically, these are the people who are trying to leave Mariupol,» he said on the air of «Russia 24». 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 Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.