A serviceman demonstrates fragments of ammunition in the courtyard of a multi-storey residential building in Donetsk. Archival photoPOPASNAIA (LPR), May 21.Ukrainian troops continue shelling the infrastructure of the city of Popasnaya in the Donbass, Ivan Filiponenko, an official representative of the LPR defense department, told RIA Novosti. The head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, stated that 96% of the buildings in the city of Popasnaya, for which there were fierce battles in the Donbass, were damaged.They are no longer ashamed: «good Russians» have started up in the West. He clarified that the remaining residents of the city remain in the basements, the People's Militia of the LPR delivers humanitarian aid to them. «Humanitarian evacuation corridors have been organized for those who want to leave,» the agency's interlocutor added. 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.
