Representative of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire. File photoDONETSK, Apr 19 Thirteen civilians were injured in the previously liberated territories of the DPR as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops, according to the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). «Through the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 13 civilians as a result of shelling of the previously liberated territories of the republic by the AFU … Thus, the total number of recorded victims in the liberated territories of the DPR is 1,192 people, including 66 children,» the statement says. Telegram channel of the representative office. 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. American journalist marveled at the atrocities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
