A miner after his shift at the Chelyuskintsev mine in Donetsk. Archival photoDONETSK, June 4 At least 20,000 subscribers of Shakhty im. Chelyuskintsev in Donetsk were left without power supply due to shelling by Ukrainian troops, according to the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). In Donetsk, 20 transformer substations have been de-energized. Without power supply to 20,000 subscribers of the Chelyuskintsev Shakhty village,» the message says. shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, 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.
