LPR People's Militia ServicemanLUGANSK, Mar 17 from the bridge across the Kamyshnaya River blown up by the Ukrainian security forces, the LPR Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement. «The prosecutor's office of the Melovsky District of the LPR received a message from a resident of the village of Streltsovka, who said that, retreating from the settlement, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up the bridge across the Kamyshnaya River. During the inspection, employees of the supervisory department, at the site of the blown up of the bridge, found a mangled car, inside of which there was a corpse,» the Prosecutor General's Office told reporters. According to preliminary information, the car was driven by a local resident. Moving at night along the bridge, he did not notice the destruction and fell down. As a result of a fall from a great height, the man received injuries incompatible with life and died on the spot. «During the blowing up of the bridge, three settlements of the Melovsky district (Kalmykovka, Musievka and Streltsovka) were cut off from the regional center. Further verification is underway on this fact,» — reported in the Prosecutor General's Office. 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 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 President of Russia emphasized.
