A sign at the exit from the city of Pervomaisk. Archival photoLUGANSK, May 14. The Prosecutor General's Office of the Luhansk People's Republic will initiate a criminal case on the fact of wounding a woman as a result of the shelling of the city of Pervomaisk in the Luhansk People's Republic by Ukrainian troops, the department told reporters. Earlier, the LPR representative office in the JCCC reported that Ukrainian troops fired on Pervomaisk twice, firing 14 shells with a caliber of 122 mm, as a result of the shelling, a woman was wounded. methods of warfare), Article 440 of the Criminal Code of the LPR (genocide),» a representative of the LPR General Prosecutor's Office said. On behalf of the Prosecutor General's Office, investigators went to the scene of the shelling. 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.
