Mine on the territory of the Lugansk TPP. File photoDONETSK, Apr 22Fourteen civilians, including one child, were injured as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops, including in Mariupol, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. «Through the operational line of the JCCC DPR information was received about the wounding of 14 civilians as a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Armed Forces of Ukraine — ed.) on the previously liberated territories of the republic,» the representative office reports in the Telegram channel. .jpg» />Nine people were injured in the previously liberated territories of the DPR. It is also noted that a boy born in 2007 was injured in the Maryinsky district of the DPR. «Thus, the total number of recorded victims in the liberated territories of the DPR is 1,231, including 67 children,» the representative office reports. 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 Kyiv 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.
