Servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kyiv region. File photoDONETSK, May 4. Six civilians were injured as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops of the liberated territories of the DPR, the representative office of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reported. «According to the operational line of the JCCC DPR received information about the wounding of 6 civilians as a result of the shelling of the AFU previously liberated territories of the Republic,» the message says. to the shelling of Donetsk, 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.
