Head of the Lugansk People's Republic Leonid Pasechnik LUGANSK, Mar 23 Head of the Luhansk People's Republic Leonid Pasechnik promised that there will be «no repressions and persecutions» in the liberated regions of the republic. «I repeat once again: there will be no repressions, no persecution, no bullying. We bring peace and tranquility. And our main task is to ensure the transition to peaceful life and to ensure the most comfortable living conditions in the liberated territories,» Pasechnik said during a meeting with the heads of the administrations of the liberated regions. LPR on coordination at the frontRussia 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 DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president stressed. As of March 23, more than 1,500 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 246 drones, including Turkish Bayraktar TB2, 184 aircraft and helicopters, 156 multiple rocket launchers and so on have been destroyed.
