AFU servicemen. Archival photoDONETSK, April 18 The DPR representative office in the JCCC reports that 21 people, including four children, were injured in Mariupol and Donskoy during shelling by Ukrainian troops.» wounding 21 civilians as a result of the shelling of the previously liberated territories of the republic by the AFU,» the mission said. An American journalist marveled at the atrocities of the Armed Forces of UkraineIt is noted that a boy born in 2006 and a girl born in 2010 were injured in Mariupol. Boys born in 2008 and 2009 were injured in the Donskoye settlement. 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 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, 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.
