In Mariupol, 7 people were injured during shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine

City residents in the courtyard of a destroyed residential building in Mariupol. File photoDONETSK, Apr 4 The representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reports that seven civilians, including a child, were wounded as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops previously liberated part of Mariupol. «The operational line of the DPR JCCC received information about the wounding of seven civilians, including one child, as a result of shelling by the VFU of the previously liberated part of the Mariupol settlement,» the message says. medical institutions, they are provided with the necessary medical assistance. Russia 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 Kiev 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.