A ruined house in Mariupol. File photoDONETSK, April 14 As a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops, 23 civilians were injured, 20 of them were injured in Mariupol, according to the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). «The operational line of the DPR JCCC received information about the wounding of 23 civilians as a result of the shelling of the AFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) of the previously liberated territories of the Republic,» the representation's Telegram channel reports.
Yasinovataya in the DPR was shelled with large-caliber shellsIt is noted that 20 people were wounded in Mariupol, the place and circumstances of the injury of 3 more people are being specified. «Thus, the total number of recorded victims in the liberated territories of the DPR is 1,088 people, including 55 children,» the statement says. 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 abuse and 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» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they 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 called the liberation of Donbass.
