LNR people's militia servicemen. Archival photoLUGANSK, March 19Ukrainian troops shelled two settlements in the LPR in a day, the representative office of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported in the Telegram channel. «From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine recorded two attacks on two settlements of the republic,» the LPR representative office said in a summary. 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 Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DNR and LNR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. really need denazification
