Shards of shells fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. File photoROSTOV-ON-DON, July 12Three residents of the Astrakhan region were killed during the shelling of a volunteer center in the Donetsk People's Republic by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Governor of the region Igor Babushkin said on Telegram. four are conducting search work. Unfortunately, among them were three Astrakhan residents: Alexander Matveev, Georgy Sherstyukov and Alexander Khovriko,” the publication says. dead.
Kiriyenko and Pushilin visited volunteers injured in the shelling in the DNR Last Sunday, the head of the DNR, Denis Pushilin, said that three people were killed and 11 were injured as a result of shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Shakhtyorsky district, where the Young Republic activists were located. The next day, the DPR representative office in the JCCC corrected the number of victims: according to updated data, 39 people were injured. It is noted that Ukrainian troops fired six missiles from the HIMARS system at the settlement of Stepano-Krynka, Shakhtyorsky district. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin pointed out, it had to be launched to protect «people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The ultimate goal of the operation, according to the president, is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions guaranteeing the security of Russia. In particular, Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Azov Sea, and Svyatogorsk, which large Orthodox monastery. On July 3, with the capture of Lisichansk and the surrounding settlements, the entire territory of the LPR was liberated.
