A serviceman demonstrates fragments of ammunition in the yard of a house in the Donbass, damaged by shelling. Archival photoDONETSK, May 22. A civilian was injured as a result of the shelling of the village of Vladimirovka in the Donetsk People's Republic by Ukrainian troops, reports the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR. … As a result of the shelling of the AFU along Protsenko Street, a woman was injured,» the message on the Headquarters Telegram channel says. Earlier, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire reported that Ukrainian troops fired four shells at Vladimirovka at 17.00 caliber 122 mm. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. 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.
