LPR people's militia serviceman in Stanitsa Luganskaya, which came under the control of the LPRLUGANSK, March 11 The streets in the settlements of the LPR liberated from Ukrainian troops will bear the names that were in force until 2015, the corresponding decree was signed by the head of the republic, Leonid Pasechnik. The process of decommunization in Ukraine was legalized by a whole package of laws that came into force on May 21, 2015. on the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic, previously occupied by Ukraine, liberated after February 19, the names of streets, lanes, quarters, squares, dead ends, boulevards, roads, embankments, lanes, avenues, driveways, towns, parks, squares and other urban planning objects are used, which operated on the territory of Ukraine as of May 18, 2014,» the decree published on the official website of the head of the LPR says. Russia launched a military operation on Ukraine 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 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. 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 emphasized.
