A man demonstrates shell fragments in Donetsk. Archival photoDONETSK, June 4 Ukrainian troops fired more than 460 shells and mines at 13 settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic in the current day, the People's Militia of the DPR reported. «During the current day, the enemy fired more than four hundred and sixty shells and mines from Grad multiple launch rocket systems of 155, 152 and 122 mm cannon artillery, as well as 120 mm mortars,» the official representative of the People's Militia said in a statement.
DPR forces suppressed three firing points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Vodiane area. It is noted that «areas of thirteen settlements of the Republic were shelled.» A civilian was killed, fourteen more people were injured, the report emphasizes. In February of this year, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. 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 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and on March 25 they 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.
