Ukrainian troops damaged the gas pipeline during the shelling of Donetsk

A soldier displays fragments of ammunition. Archival photoDONETSK, May 12.Ukrainian troops shelled the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, the gas pipeline was interrupted, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the Donetsk People's Republic said on Thursday. — the message published in the Telgram channel of the headquarters says. The report does not specify which gas pipeline is in question. On Thursday, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire already announced the shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. According to the representative office at 13.47 Moscow time, the Ukrainian security forces fired three 122-mm shells at him. 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, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. coast of Mariupol