
Shell fragments in the Donetsk region. File photoDONETSK, May 4.Over the past day, Ukrainian troops shelled the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic 22 times, including from heavy weapons, firing over 130 ammunition, wounding one civilian, the republic's representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports. 24 hours, the representative office reported 22 instances of firing by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (the armed formations of Ukraine — ed.). In the Donetsk direction, the enemy used Grad MLRS, 122 mm artillery, 122 mm mortars, LNG/RPG. In Gorlovsky — 122 mm artillery, mortars 120 millimeters, AGS, small arms,» the message on the representation's Telegram channel says.»Nonhumans, worse than terrorists.» What distinguishes the Ukrainian security forcesThe department added that the Ukrainian troops released «131 units of various ammunition.» Under fire were areas of nine settlements of the republic, including Donetsk (Petrovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Kirovsky districts), Gorlovka (villages of Komsomolets and 67 mines), Yasinovataya, Lozovoye, Yasnoye, Aleksandrovka, Luganskoye, Yelenovka, Dokuchaevsk. According to the representative office , one civilian was wounded in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, 10 houses were damaged in the Kirovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Aleksandrovka, Yasnoye, Yelenovka, as well as three civilian infrastructure facilities. 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.

