Refugees getting ready to board a bus on the Zaporozhye highway in Mariupol . Archival photoDONETSK, March 19 More than 500 people received pensions and social benefits in six settlements liberated in the DPR, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the Donetsk People's Republic reports. Stepanovka, Andreevka and Bugas, pensions and social benefits were paid in the amount of almost 4 million rubles. In total, 514 people received money, of which 419 were pensions, 95 were social benefits,» the headquarters' Telegram channel said. 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 DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. plans to start paying benefits to residents
