House damaged by shelling. File photoDONETSK, Apr 30 Ukrainian troops shelled the DPR 24 times in 24 hours, firing 238 rounds of ammunition, killing two civilians and wounding six more, according to the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). «Over the past 24 hours, the Representation reported 24 instances of firing by the AFU… Having fired 238 units of various ammunition… Over the past 24 hours, information was received about the death of two and the wounding of six civilians, including a child, in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk,» — the report says. It is noted that 16 housing constructions in the Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, as well as seven civilian infrastructure facilities were 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.
