A soldier displays fragments of ammunition. Archival photoDONETSK, May 4. A girl born in 2007 was injured as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, city mayor Aleksey Kulemzin reports. that Ukrainian troops fired twice at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing eight shells with a caliber of 122 mm. is located on the western outskirts of the capital of the DPR, it is the most distant part of the city from the center. Since 2014, when the DPR declared independence from Kyiv, the area, starting from the line of contact outside the city of Marinka, has been regularly shelled by Ukrainian troops. 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, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. What sparked the civil war in Ukraine
