Ukrainian fightersMOSCOW, March 14 in the Donetsk region, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry said. «On March 13, the retreating militants of the nationalist battalions carried out sabotage at the Avdiivka coke plant in the Donetsk region,» the report says. «Because of the ongoing hostilities, it is impossible to extinguish the fire,» the department added. Russia launched a special 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 Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at nothing threatens the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, 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 emphasized.