Shards of shells fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. Archival photoDONETSK, June 11 Two servicemen of the Donetsk People's Republic were killed, four were injured over the past day, the People's Militia of the DPR said. Republics died in the line of military duty and four were injured,» the People's Militia of the DPR said in a statement on the Telegram channel. : the French will pay for the escalation of the crisisRussia 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.
