Pigeons fly over a burned-out infantry fighting vehicle in Mariupol. File photoDONETSK, Apr 15Eighteen civilians were injured in Mariupol, Volodarsky and Mangush due to shelling by Ukrainian troops, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. as a result of the shelling of the AFU (by armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) of the previously liberated territories of the Republic: the settlement of Mariupol: — children: two boys born in 2007 and 2010 and a girl born in 2006; — men: 1981, 1973, 1976, 1989, 1991, born in 1976, 1971, 1992, 1975; — women: born in 1962, 1933, 1970, 1994,» the DPR representative office in the JCCC said in a statement. .jpg» />The Russian military prevented a strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. It is noted that a man born in 1948 was wounded in Volodarsky. «There was also information about a man wounded in the village of Mangush, whose age is being specified,» the DPR representative office added. Russia began 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.
