Destroyed buildings on the territory of Donetsk airport. File photoMOSCOW, June 8Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk airport on Wednesday morning, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire reported.
" VFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine. — Note ed.) in the following directions: 06:04 — the settlement of Experienced — the city of Donetsk (Airport), 15 shells of 125 mm caliber were fired from a tank", — says in a publication on the Telegram channel of the representative office.
As the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin reported on May 27, the authorities of the republic will begin to restore the airports of Donetsk and Mariupol immediately after the end of hostilities. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the army strikes only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and has already completed the main task of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the operation in the Russian defense department was the liberation of Donbass.