
Patch with the emblem of the Azov nationalist battalion on a street in MariupolDONETSK, March 24 >Ukrainian militants, dressed in civilian clothes, can conduct sabotage activities in the liberated cities of the Donetsk People's Republic, military expert Alexei Leonkov told RIA Novosti. «The Americans boasted that they had trained nine thousand specialists in Ukraine for sabotage and intelligence work. That is, people who should arrange acts of sabotage and sabotage behind enemy lines, as well as conduct terror against the civilian population. And mine explosives were taught to everyone. As you can see, now a lot of objects that the forces of the DPR and the Russian Federation are liberating are mined. And they are mined in this way, that demining requires top-class specialists. And Ukrainian soldiers were trained in this way. Therefore, now they, having thrown off the uniform of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, dressed in civilian clothes, can act in this way in the territories that are being liberated,» Leonkov said.
Captured Ukrainian Nazis can tell a lot. He explained that such forces of Ukrainian militants have already begun to manifest themselves, since not all liberated settlements have the ability to ensure the vital activity of local authorities and law enforcement due to damaged infrastructure. «And sabotage and reconnaissance groups take advantage of this. They disguise themselves, pretend to be civilians and settle down in some locality, and they won't do anything until a certain moment, until a center gets in touch with them, which will lead them in the future, then they will begin their subversive activities. this is impossible,» the expert 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 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 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the 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 the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.

