Fighters of the people's militia of the Donetsk People's RepublicDONETSK, Mar 13 troops of the settlement of Yelenovka in the DPR, reports the representative office of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC). «, — the message of the representative office in Vkontakte says. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine 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 the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
