Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Ceasefire and Stabilization of the Contact Line (JCCC) . File photoDONETSK, May 21.One hundred and twenty-one civilians, including four children, were killed, 549 people, including 44 children, were injured in 94 days of escalation by Ukrainian troops in the Donetsk People's Republic, the republic's representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire said. (JCCC). «During the 94 days of the escalation, 121 civilians, including four children, were killed. 549 civilians, including 44 children, received injuries of varying severity,» the office said in a Telegram channel. during this period, 3084 cases of firing were recorded, of which 2807 were using heavy weapons. In total, the enemy fired 29,140 ammunition of various calibers, including 28 missiles from the Tochka-U OTRK, 11 BM-30 Smerch MLRS missiles, 27 missiles MLRS BM-27 «Uragan» and 4650 MLRS missiles BM-21 «Grad». SURussia 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.
