A local resident shows fragments of large-caliber shells after a night shelling in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. File photoDONETSK, June 4In five minutes, Ukrainian troops fired 25 rockets from the Grad MLRS and 20 shells with a caliber of 122 mm at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk in five minutes, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. (of the armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the following directions: 14.45 — Novomikhailovka settlement — Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 25 missiles were fired from the BM-21 «Grad»; 14.50 — Krasnogorovka settlement — Donetsk ( Petrovsky district): 20 shells with a caliber of 122 mm were fired,» the mission's Telegram channel said. «Grad» and MLRS «Hurricane» with a caliber of 220 millimeters. 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. />14:05InfographicMap of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine as of 04.06.2022Russia 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.
