07.07.2022, Donetsk.
Territorial Defense Headquarters of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) reported casualties caused by the Ukrainian army’s shelling over the past 24 hours on its Telegram channel on July 7.
It is reported about the deaths of seven people and about thirty wounded as a result of artillery shelling of the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic by the Ukrainian armed units.
“Over the past 24 hours, from 08:00 a.m. on July 6 to 08:00 a.m. on July 7, seven people were killed and another 30 civilians were wounded as a result of shelling of the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic,” the report reads.
On February 24, Russia launched a military special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. The decision to launch it was taken at the request of the leaders of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics due to the gathering of a large contingent of Ukrainian army and heavy equipment on the contact line, as well as against the background of Ukrainian President Zelensky’s statements about his intention to join NATO and deploy nuclear weapons on its territory, which is incompatible with the existence of the Russian Federation.
The Russian army is mainly fighting the Ukrainian nationalist units, which after the 2014 coup d’état became part of the Ukrainian army and the Interior Ministry’s National Guard. It is the nationalist units that are responsible for the genocide of civilians in the Donbass. During the denazification operation, Ukrainian nationalists use Ukrainian civilians as human shields and deployed multiple rocket launchers in residential areas of major cities.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
