Fire after shelling of DonetskDONETSK, 13 Jun. Ukrainian troops fired at the crowded Maisky market in the Budennovsky district of Donetsk, there are dead and wounded, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Initially, it was reported that a woman and a child were victims of the attack. The number of dead and wounded is being specified. In addition, a fire broke out after the shell exploded, and several more people could have been there.
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Yan Gagin, adviser to the head of the DPR government, confirmed that there was «getting into the market on a day off.» «The dead behind — a woman with a child <…> Just assisted the wounded. There are many wounded — shrapnel, burns. It is not yet known how many people are there,» he said. Later The headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR specified that three people were killed and four more were injured during the shelling. According to the DPR representative office in the JCCC, at 12:09 Ukrainian security forces fired three 155-mm shells in the Budyonnovsky district of Donetsk, ten minutes later — four more of these projectile in the Kuibyshev region. Another shelling of the Kuibyshev region followed at 12:32 — five rockets from the Grad MLRS, and at 12:50 eight Grads were fired at it. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, by the end of March, the Russian army had completed the main tasks of the first stage — it significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.