Representative of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire. Archival photoDONETSK, May 20. A civilian was injured in Donetsk as a result of the shelling of the city by Ukrainian troops, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reports. as a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Armed Forces of Ukraine) in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk along Slovatska Street, 7,» the representative office said in the Telegram channel. 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
