Ukrainian militaryLUHANSK, Mar 15Ukrainian security forces opened fire on a car with a family of seven who were trying to evacuate from the Kiev-controlled Rubezhnoye settlement. Earlier, the LPR said that the forces of the People's Militia of the republic were encircling Ukrainian security forces stationed in Severodonetsk and Lysichansk. The defense department said that the residents of these cities and the nearby Rubizhne were trying to evacuate en masse, including to the LPR. «They shot our car on purpose … Everything was left in the car. We guys, LPR soldiers, were taken out of there in an armored personnel carrier … We have a grandmother, grandfather without Documents and the smallest one. Documents burned down… My grandmother’s son was burned down… They fired like that. My grandfather has three wounds, I have a shoulder, my husband has shrapnel in the head, the children are safe, and my grandmother’s hand is injured,» said one of the victims, a resident of Rubizhne, Elena Rybina-Boitsova, who is now with her family in the Luhansk Republican Clinical Hospital. According to her, the car came under fire from Ukrainian security forces on March 13, when it had already entered the territory controlled by the LPR. According to the woman, one of their relatives was killed during the shelling, and the other four adults received shrapnel wounds.View from Kyiv: Ukraine really needs denazificationOn Tuesday, the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, visited the family in the hospital. The head of the republic assured that the victims would be provided with all the necessary assistance, including with the restoration of documents. 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.» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. NATO». How the Ukrainian army is fighting
