AFU servicemen. File photoDONETSK, Apr 16Twenty-six civilians were injured as a result of shelling of the liberated territories of the DPR by Ukrainian troops, reports the representative office of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC). (of the armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) of the previously liberated territories of the republic,» the message says.Ukraine was supposed to rally the «free world», but something went wrong. It is emphasized, in particular, that a boy born in 2014 suffered in the village of Krasnaya Polyana, Volnovakhsky district. «Thus, the total number of recorded victims in the liberated territories of the DPR is 1,133 people, in including 59 children,» the representative office added. 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 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 Russian Defense Ministry, 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 called the liberation of Donbass. At present, the strategically important regional center of Volnovakha south of Donetsk has been liberated in the DPR, and battles are underway for the final liberation of Mariupol, the largest city and industrial center on the coast of the Sea of Azov. In the LPR, according to the statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense on March 25, 93% of the territory of the former Luhansk region was taken under control. The cities of Severodonetsk, Lisichansk and a number of other settlements of this agglomeration remain under the authority of Kyiv. hostages
