Ukrainian militaryLUHANSK, Feb 17The people's militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic is recording the arrival of foreign media in the part of Donbas controlled by Kiev, called upon to support the offensive operation of the Ukrainian security forces in the right light, Ivan Filiponenko, the official representative of the republic's defense department, told reporters. Kiev territory. The head of the People's Militia Department of the LPR, Yan Leshchenko, accused Kiev of spreading fakes. According to him, «in the photographs published by Ukrainian propagandists one can observe serious destruction of the walls, while the glazing of the building is completely intact.» According to Leshchenko, anyone who has ever seen damage to buildings from real shelling will say that these are staged photos.The DPR called on the Armed Forces of Ukraine to return to a truce»To cover the events in the Donbass in the right direction for the West, provide information support for the offensive operation and justify the intensification of Ukraine's hostilities in the eyes of the world community, on February 17, accompanied by officers of the 74th Center for Information and Psychological Operations to the regions settlements of Stanytsia Luhanska, Shchastia and Krymske (controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine — ed.), representatives of Western media arrived, including the American television channels CNN, NBC, as well as the Romanian television channel ANTENA TV,» Filiponenko said, commenting on the shelling of a kindergarten in the controlled Kiev territory. He specified that for the same purpose, at the beginning of next week, the arrival of film crews from Albania, Belgium, Georgia, Latvia, Luxembourg and North Macedonia is planned. “We believe that this farce (allegedly shelling of a kindergarten by the People’s Militia of the LPR – ed.) was fabricated specifically for these press representatives,” Filiponenko stressed. Representatives of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics said on Thursday morning that the armed forces of Ukraine opened massive fire by their positions. As reported later in the People's Militia Department of the DPR, on Thursday the Ukrainian security forces violated the truce 21 times, a resident of Staromikhaylovka was wounded. The representative office of the LPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire reported that as a result of the shelling of the village of Nikolaevka, residential buildings, a power line and a gas pipeline were damaged. Also, the Ukrainian security forces were shelling in the direction of the republic-controlled settlements of Kalinovo-Borshchevatoe, Khristovoye, Slavyanoserbsk and Golubovskoye from 120 mm mortars, grenade launchers and heavy machine guns. security forces and two civilians were injured. In particular, the military announced the shelling of Stanytsia Luhanska, controlled by Kiev, shells hit the building of a kindergarten, as a result of which three employees received shell shock. The Security Council of Ukraine opened a criminal case under the article «terrorist act». On Thursday, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, another shelling was also carried out, this time the village of Vrubovka, Severodonetsk region, was hit. The shelling damaged the building of a local school. The delegation of Kiev in the contact group on Donbass requested to convene an extraordinary meeting.
