Ukrainian servicemen MOSCOW, Mar 19 Radicals on the Kyiv-Chernihiv highway extort money from civilians under the pretext of raising funds for the Ukrainian troops, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Center for Defense Control of Russia, said on Saturday. residents at a fixed rate: 500 hryvnia for a car, 300 for an adult, and 100 for a child, while for everyone trying to travel towards Russia, these tariffs are five times higher, and the most cynical is that if there are no funds for bribes, the cars are confiscated and people are sent back on foot,» he said. 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 abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» 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. preparation of terrorist attacks in Lviv
