Representative of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire. Archival photoDONETSK, May 3. More than 22,000 subscribers were left without power in Donetsk as a result of the shelling of the Petrovsky district by Ukrainian troops, according to the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) ).Earlier, the mission informed that Ukrainian troops at 22.00 (the time coincides with Moscow time) shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing five shells with a caliber of 122 mm. >Ukrainian troops fired on the Petrovsky district of Donetsk from «Grada»» According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the damage to the Kirov electrical networks due to shelling by the armed forces of Ukraine. At the moment, 160 transformer substations in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk are de-energized, more than 22 thousand subscribers power supply,» the representative office said in a message on its Telegram channel. Russia began military th 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.
