Representative of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire. Archival photoDONETSK, May 13. Eight civilians were injured as a result of shelling of the previously liberated territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reported. The line of the DPR JCCC received information about the wounding of 8 civilians as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the previously liberated territory,” the message says in the Telegram channel of the representative office. The total number of recorded victims in the liberated territories of the DPR is 1,352 people, including 70 children, the mission added. 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. What Ukrainian artillerymen did in Donbass
