Ambulances. Archival photoDONETSK, April 30 In the DPR, 94 civilians were killed and 422 were injured in 73 days of escalation, according to the republic's representative office in the JCCC. «During 73 days of escalation, 94 civilians were killed, including two children. 422 civilians, including 37 children, received injuries of varying severity,» the representative office said in the Telegram channel. , 163 social security facilities, 26 critical infrastructure facilities, 300 electricity, water and gas supply facilities. During this period, the DPR representative office in the JCCC recorded 2,379 facts of firing, of which 2,143 were using heavy weapons. In total, Ukrainian troops fired 24,118 ammunition of various calibers, including 26 missiles from the Tochka-U OTRK, four BM-30 Smerch MLRS missiles, nine BM-27 Uragan MLRS missiles and 3163 BM-21 Grad MLRS missiles. Russia launched a military operation on Ukraine 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.
