Fighters of the People's Militia of the DPR on the road of the village of Novotroitskoye, Volnovakhsky district. File photoDONETSK, Mar 13The Ukrainian troops, retreating from Volnovakha, left foreign-made weapons, according to the video footage of the People's Militia Department of the Donetsk People's Republic, posted on the Telegram channel of the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR. ammunition for all types of weapons. In particular, it is noted that in Volnovakha, people's militia units seized not only vast warehouses of ammunition, but also automobile and armored vehicles, and soon after minor repairs, it will go into operation and will be used in the deoccupation of the remaining territory DNR.» In addition to ammunition and weapons of Soviet and Ukrainian production, the retreating fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also throw samples of Western weapons, which are immediately used by the defenders of Donbass in battle. The offensive of the people's militia cannot be stopped. The only chance for Ukrainian soldiers to survive is immediately cease resistance and lay down their arms,» the people's militia department said in a statement. The video also notes that the banner of the Donetsk People's Republic was raised in front of the Volnovakha administration. «As we can see, the armed forces of Ukraine very quickly left this territory and threw off their uniforms as much as possible. There are a lot of elements of uniforms, bivouac equipment, they threw off everything, changed into civilian clothes and thus tried to get out,» the report 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 Russian President stressed.
