Ukrainian soldiers firing mortars. File photoDONETSK, June 5Ukrainian troops shelled the Dolomitne and Petrovsky district of the city of Donetsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, firing five shells with a caliber of 122 millimeters and eight mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. (of the armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) in the direction: 10.00 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Semigorye — the settlement of Dolomitnoye: eight mines with a caliber of 120 millimeters were fired: 10.05 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Krasnogorovka — the city of Donetsk (Petrovsky district) : five shells with a caliber of 122 mm were fired,» the message of the representative office in the Telegram channel says. 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 troops. Russia 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.
