A serviceman displays fragments of ammunition in the courtyard of a house damaged by shelling. Archival photoDONETSK, May 8. A civilian was injured as a result of shelling of the village of Verkhnetoretskoye by Ukrainian troops, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports. «By operational line The JCCC of the DPR received information about the wounding of a civilian born in 1954 as a result of the shelling of the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the village of Verkhnetoretskoye at the address: Krasnaya Street, 48, «the department said in a statement on the Telegram channel.
Ukrainian troops attacked a boarding school in DonetskEarlier, the mission recorded the shelling of Verkhnetoretsk with eight shells of 122 mm caliber. 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.
