A serviceman demonstrates fragments of ammunition in the Donbass. Archival photoDONETSK, May 7. A civilian was injured as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops of Blagodatny in the Donetsk People's Republic, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. The JCCC of the DPR received information about the injury of 1 civilian as a result of shelling of the AFU on the previously liberated territory of the Republic: Blagodatnoye settlement: male, born in 2000,» the representative office's Telegram channel said in a message. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Russian Armed Forces had completed the main tasks of the first stage of the special operation – they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, and Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, have been liberated in the DPR. In the LPR, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, as of March 25, 93% of the former Luhansk region, within whose borders a republic was proclaimed, had been liberated. /> Investigative Committee opened a case after the discovery of a torture facility near Kherson
