Destroyed building in Mariupol. File photoDONETSK, Apr 6Twenty civilians, including two children, were injured in the part of Mariupol liberated by the DPR forces due to shelling by Ukrainian troops, the representative office of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports. information about the wounding of 20 civilians, including two children, as a result of shelling by the VFU (the armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) of the previously liberated part of Mariupol,» the report says. It is noted that among the children, a boy born in 2013 was injured, as well girl born in 2008. The victims were taken to medical institutions of the republic, where they receive the necessary medical care. At the time of the proclamation of the DPR in 2014, Mariupol, with a population of about 450,000 people, was the second largest city in the republic after Donetsk. However, in June of that year, the Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol, and its eastern suburbs became one of the hottest places of conflict in Ukraine. On March 7, 2022, Alexander Semyonov, deputy commander of the Vostok battalion of the DPR, said that the city was surrounded, and a cleansing of some of its districts had begun. Currently, the allied forces of the Russian Federation and the DPR are fighting for the final liberation of the city. Among other Ukrainian units, they are resisted by the nationalist Azov regiment, against whose fighters a criminal case has been initiated in the Russian Federation.Ukrainian troops use attack drones in DonbasRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was the liberation of Donbass. In the DPR, Ukrainian troops were driven out of Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk; there are battles for Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov. In the LPR, according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense on March 25, 93% of the territory of the former Lugansk region was taken under control. Only the cities of Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, as well as a number of other settlements of this agglomeration, remain under the authority of Kyiv.
