DPR serviceman on the front line near the village of Staromikhailovka in western DonetskMOSCOW, Feb 19The head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, announced general mobilization. that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are constantly shelling the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, using mortars, grenade launchers and anti-tank systems. Only in recent days in the DPR, several attempts of terrorist attacks have been prevented. «People's militia, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, emergency services are ready to repulse Ukraine. Whatever the scenario, we will be able to contain Kiev's aggression. We must combine all efforts,» Pushilin urged. A little later it became known that a similar decree was signed by Head of the Luhansk People's Republic Leonid Pasechnik. Men aged 18 to 55 were banned from leaving the LPR.The DPR announced the prevention of several terrorist attacks by Ukrainian special servicesThis week, the situation on the line of contact in the Donbass has seriously escalated — Kiev ignores all the agreements reached earlier, has concentrated most of the army on the border with the DPR and LPR and regularly shells the militias, including with the use of prohibited equipment. According to Pushilin, in the coming days, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky will order the military to launch an invasion. Against this background, the leadership of the self-proclaimed republics announced a temporary evacuation of citizens to the Rostov region. First of all, this applies to women, children and the elderly. According to the latest data, more than six and a half thousand people have already been taken out of the DPR. The conflict in eastern Ukraine has been going on for eight years, during which time, according to the UN, more than 13 thousand people have become its victims, and about 44 thousand more have suffered. De-escalation is being discussed at a contact group meeting in the Belarusian capital. The Minsk agreements are taken as a basis, which provide for a constitutional reform, a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of contact. Tensions in the Donbass are escalated by the United States and other NATO countries, which pump weapons to Ukraine and send military instructors there. Moscow has repeatedly called for a halt in the supply of weapons, as this could provoke Kiev into military adventures. /2022/02/402959123370e60e7ba90d578bc3095f.jpg» />Putin's strategic deterrencePosted by: Ekaterina Zaitseva
