An employee of the People's Militia of the DPR near a shell crater near a Gorlovka school. Archival photoDONETSK, May 8.Ukrainian troops shelled the building of a kindergarten in Gorlovka, the glazing was damaged, according to the message of the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR. glazing of kindergarten No. 51,» the message reads. 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
