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Donetsk. Archival photoDONETSK, April 29 Ukrainian troops shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk on Friday night, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. The shelling was recorded at 01.50, fire was fired from the Novomikhailovka settlement, a total of six shells of 122 mm caliber were fired. «, — the message of the representative office in the Telegram channel says. Petrovsky district of Donetsk is located on the western outskirts of the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic, this is the most distant part of the city from the center. Since 2014, when the DPR declared independence from Kyiv, this area, starting from the line of contact outside the city of Marinka, has been regularly shelled by Ukrainian troops. On February 24, Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The agency called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.