A burnt car after shelling by Ukrainian troops in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. File photoDONETSK, June 5Ukrainian troops shelled Yelenovka and the Petrovsky district of the city of Donetsk in the Donetsk People's Republic, firing 11 shells with a caliber of 122 mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. .) in the direction: 13.00 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Novomikhailovka — the settlement of Yelenovka: six shells of 122 mm caliber were fired; 14.10 (coincides with Moscow time) — the settlement of Krasnogorovka — the city of Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 122 caliber were fired millimeters,» the representative office said in a Telegram channel message.One hundred days of a military special operation in Ukraine: when everything is over 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, the 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, 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.
