A destroyed residential building in the town of Shchastia in the Luhansk People's Republic. Archival photoDONETSK, March 6There are 54 settlements under the full control of the LPR, according to the People's Militia of the Republic. «Currently, 54 settlements are under the full control of the LPR,» the Telegram channel said. departments. 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 abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian president stressed.The development of the situation is in the online report >> Pushilin said that the DPR and LPR military «gnaw out» every meter of land
