House damaged by shelling. Archival photoDONETSK, May 8. Ukrainian troops shelled the DPR 28 times in a day, firing 238 rounds of ammunition, 9 people were injured, according to the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). «Over the past 24 hours, the mission reported 28 instances of firing by the VFU… Having fired 238 units of various ammunition… Over the past 24 hours, information was received about the wounding of nine civilians in the Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Gorlovka and Yasnoye,» the report says. that 30 housing constructions were damaged in the Kirovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yasnoy, Yasinovataya, as well as 6 civilian infrastructure facilities. 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.
