A serviceman in the DPR shows the way for refugees. Archival photoROSTOV-ON-DON, March 21 Over 9,000 evacuated residents of the LPR and DPR crossed checkpoints on the border with Russia in a day, the Border Directorate of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Rostov Region reports. more than 9,000 citizens crossed the border to Russia through checkpoints located in the Rostov region,» the message says. hosted refugees from the DonbassRussia 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 Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. Against the backdrop of hostilities in a large number of cities and villages of Ukraine, a humanitarian catastrophe is emerging. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation lays responsibility for this on the Kiev authorities, who refuse to coordinate the work of humanitarian corridors, as well as local nationalists, in some cases, according to the military department, holding civilians as human shields.
Putin thanked Russians helping refugees from the DNR and LNR
