The aftermath of shelling. Archival photoDONETSK, May 10. Nine civilians, including a teenager, were injured during the shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reports. Earlier, a local resident Alexander Petrenko told RIA Novosti that the Ukrainian military Victory Day subjected Donetsk to heavier shelling than usual. As a result of the shelling, a teenager and a woman were killed. «According to the operational line of the JCCC of the DPR, information was received about the wounding of nine civilians during the shelling of the city of Donetsk,» the message of the representative office in the Telegram channel says. born and a woman born in 1946. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. 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.
