Representative of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire. File photoDONETSK, Apr 16The number of victims of the shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops on Saturday increased to 10, including children, according to the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). residents (born in 1977 and 1995) «as a result of the shelling of the VFU (the armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) of the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk».Why the West is afraid of the denazification of Ukraine»Thus, the total number of victims of today's shelling of the city of Donetsk has increased to 10 people, two of them are children,» the representative office specified. 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
