
JCCC representative in the DPR. Archival photoDONETSK, June 5 Ukrainian troops shelled the Donetsk People's Republic 62 times in a day, firing 641 rounds of ammunition, killing five people, 24, including a child, were injured, according to the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for control and coordination of the ceasefire regime (JCCC). «Over the past day, the mission reported 62 facts of firing by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Armed Forces of Ukraine — ed.) … Having fired 641 units of various ammunition … Over the past day, information was received about the death of five and the wounding of 24 civilians, including a child (boy) born in 2017,» the report says. infrastructure. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. 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.

