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Destroyed buildings in the center of Mariupol. Archival photoDONETSK, April 30 More than 3,900 subscribers are left without power supply in the Donetsk People's Republic due to shelling by Ukrainian troops, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reports. 47 transformer substations and over 3,900 household subscribers have been de-energized in the republic,» the message says, citing the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations. 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.