DONETSK, May 22. Donetsk People's Republic, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reported on its Telegram channel. It is noted that ten mines with a caliber of 82 mm were fired at the settlement. information was received about the injured civilians: a man and a woman born in 1954 as a result of the shelling of the VFU settlement of Staromikhaylovka at the address: Artem Street, 24", the publication says.
From February 24, Russia has been conducting a military operation to demilitarization of Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin emphasized, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The department called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.