AFU servicemen in the Kyiv region. Archival photoLUGANSK, May 3. Two women were wounded as a result of shelling of the liberated city of Rubizhne in the Donbass by Ukrainian troops, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Earlier, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced the complete liberation of Rubizhne, later the People's Militia of the LPR announced the liberation of the industrial zone in the vicinity of the city, which the Ukrainian security forces turned into a fortified area.The LPR Foreign Ministry called the death of more than 400 residents of Rubizhne a genocideThe shelling took place on Tuesday afternoon. One of the shells flew into the courtyard of a residential building. Two women were injured. «The woman from the third entrance was wounded in the stomach and arm, we were just descending between the second and third floors, she was wounded in the leg. We just left, five minutes ago we were making lunch on the bench,» a neighbor told reporters affected women of Elya. Both women were provided with medical assistance. According to local residents, there was a lull on Monday, and on Tuesday shelling from the direction of Ukrainian positions resumed. According to doctors, only on Sunday they helped nine wounded civilians in the city. 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.
