The aftermath of the shelling of Donetsk. Archival photoDONETSK, May 8. The number of people injured in the shelling of the city of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops on Sunday increased to two, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported. «As a result of shelling in the Kuibyshevsky district, a man was wounded, another man was wounded in the Petrovsky district,» the headquarters said in a Telegram channel. Since 2014, when the DPR declared its independence from Kyiv, this area, starting from the line of contact outside the city of Marinka, has been regularly shelled by Ukrainian troops. />A woman was wounded during the shelling of Shirokaya Balka by the Ukrainian militaryRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. 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.
