An employee examines the damage after shelling in the City Hospital No. 20 in Donetsk, 2015. Archival photoDONETSK, 30 Apr. The number of people injured as a result of the shelling by Ukrainian troops of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk has increased to 5, according to the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR. Earlier it was reported that one civilian was killed, three were injured as a result of the shelling of the Petrovsky district of the city of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/b17a4bed889c06d1a509cb9182fdd7b9.jpg" />Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk»The number of victims after the shelling of the AFU in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk increased to 6 people: 1 person was killed, 5 were injured,» it says in the message. 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.
