Consequences of shelling in Donetsk. A frame from an eyewitness video. File photoDONETSK, May 15. Six civilians, including a child, were injured as a result of shelling of the liberated territory of the DPR by Ukrainian troops, the representative office of the republic at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire said ( «The operational line of the DPR JCCC received information about the wounding of six civilians as a result of shelling by Ukrainian armed forces of the previously liberated territory of the republic,» the ministry said in a statement published on its Telegram channel. It is noted that residents of the settlements of Pavlovka, Nikolskoye, Novoandreevka, Vladimirovka, as well as the Volnovakhsky district were injured. area, banned mines in the DonbasRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Russian Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage of the special operation — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was the liberation of Donbass. On April 19, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the start of the next phase of the special operation. Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, and Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, have been liberated in the DPR. In the LPR, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, as of March 25, 93% of the former Lugansk region, within which a republic was proclaimed in 2014, was liberated.
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