Liberation of the village of Granite by the forces of the DPR armyDONETSK, March 2 The People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic reported that that on March 1, Ukrainian troops during clashes in the area of the settlement of Bessarabka captured servicemen of the People's Militia, and warned about the consequences of inhumane treatment of prisoners. retaliation,» the People's Militia said on its Telegram channel. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev 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, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized.The development of the situation is in the online report>>Bastrykin instructed to record the facts of torture of prisoners by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
