Ukrainian servicemen who voluntarily laid down their arms during a meeting with the Commissioner for Human Rights in the LPR Viktoria Serdyukova in Luhansk. Archival photoDONETSK, Mar 19 Specialists from the Donetsk People's Republic have developed a special «Switch to the side of the DPR» bot in Telegram so that Ukrainian military personnel can receive assistance in the process of switching to the side of Russia, the DPR or the LPR, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the republic.» In connection with the rapid increase in the number of military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Armed Forces of Ukraine — ed.), who voluntarily laid down their arms, specialists from the Donetsk People's Republic developed a special bot: «Switch to the side of the DPR», with which the military personnel of the armed forces of Ukraine can receive all the necessary assistance in the process of transferring to the side of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR,» the headquarters’ Telegram channel says. As reported, the bot must be provided with contact details, an estimated time and place of the transition, as well as the presence of weapons. Russia has launched a military operation in Ukraine 24 February. 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 President of Russia emphasized. about detachments
