Consequences of the shelling of the Petrovsky district of DonetskDONETSK, May 18. Hospital, school, kindergarten and 2 6,000 household subscribers were left without electricity in Donetsk and its suburbs as a result of shelling on Wednesday by Ukrainian troops, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reports. garden, 2,600 household subscribers in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, as well as the settlements of Oleksandrivka and Kremenets,» the headquarters' Telegram channel said. >Ukrainian troops fired eight shells at DonetskRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. 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.
