People's police officer near the shell crater. File photoLUHANSK, Apr 28Over the past 24 hours, a child and a 95-year-old woman were killed in shelling by Ukrainian troops in the Luhansk People's Republic, four people were injured, 20 houses and a kindergarten were damaged, the DPR office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime reports on its Telegram channel. (JCCC). «From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, 6 attacks were recorded on the settlements of Irmino, Stakhanov, Zolote-5, Pervomaisk using BM-30 Smerch and BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, artillery pieces of caliber 152 mm and 122 mm. As a result of shelling in the village of Stakhanov, a child born in 2012 was killed and a young man born in 2003 was wounded. 17 residential buildings were damaged and destroyed,» the representative office said in a statement. a woman born in 1927, two more were injured. Two residential buildings, the Center for Out-of-School Education and the kindergarten «Solnyshko» were damaged here. In the village of Irmino, a woman born in 1960 was wounded, a residential building was damaged. 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 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.
