A serviceman demonstrates fragments of ammunition in the courtyard of a multi-storey residential building in Donetsk, damaged by shelling. File photoDONETSK, May 5.On Thursday, Ukrainian troops again fired on the Petrovsky district of the city of Donetsk, firing four shells with a caliber of 122 mm, according to the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). settlement of Krasnogorovka — the city of Donetsk (Petrovsky district), four shells with a caliber of 122 mm were fired,» the message says in the representative's Telegram channel. >Volunteers in the DPR will deal with humanitarian issues and infrastructure restoration Petrovsky district of Donetsk is located on the western outskirts of the capital of the DPR, this is the most distant part of the city from the center. Since 2014, when the DPR declared independence from Kyiv, this 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, 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.
