Kyiv district of Donetsk. June 13, 2022DONETSK, June 13 Donetsk was subjected to new shelling by Ukrainian troops, explosions were heard in the city center, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
It is reported that Russian air defense systems repelled the attack, managed to hit at least one target. According to the DPR representative office in Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC), the Ukrainian security forces fired at the Voroshilovsky, Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky districts of the capital of the republic, firing eight rockets from the BM-27 Uragan, eighty rockets from the Grad MLRS, 18 shells of 155 mm caliber and ten mines of 120 mm caliber. On Monday morning, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired three shells of 155 mm caliber at the Budennovsky district of Donetsk, where the Maysky market is located. As a result, three people were killed and 18 more residents were injured. Other areas were also subjected to shelling — Kirovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv, where the gas pipeline caught fire. In some cases, in addition to the MLRS, 155 NATO caliber shells were used. Who entered the Donbass for the first time Russia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine since February 24. 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 Russian troops completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.