A woman on a street in Donetsk. File photoDONETSK, Apr 29 Ukrainian troops shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk for the second time overnight, firing seven 122mm shells, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) said. «Fire was recorded from the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction: 03.35 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Krasnogorovka — the city of Donetsk (Petrovsky district), 7 shells with a caliber of 122 mm were fired,» the representative office said in the Telegram channel. Petrovsky district was shelled at 1.50, six shells were fired. 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.
