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The aftermath of shelling. Archival photoDONETSK, June 2 At 12:00 Moscow time, Ukrainian troops shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing five shells with a caliber of 122 mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime reports.In the representative office's Telegram channel it is specified that the shelling was recorded from the direction of the Krasnogorovka settlement. then the Ukrainian troops also fired five shells with a caliber of 122 mm. The Petrovsky district of Donetsk is located on the western outskirts of the capital of the DPR, this is the most distant part of the city from the center. Since 2014, when the DPR declared independence from Kyiv, this area, starting from the line of contact outside the city of Marinka, has been regularly shelled by Ukrainian security forces. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces 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. Along with the Russian military, units of the DPR and LPR are operating in the region.