A shell crater on a street in Rubizhne, Luhansk People's RepublicLUGANSK, March 25More than ten journalistic groups of foreign media arrived in the Luhansk People's Republic as part of a press tour organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense, Ivan Filiponenko, an official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, told reporters. «There is an opinion in the West that the LPR, DPR and Russia … are closed for work foreign press, are fenced off by some kind of iron curtain, but this is absolutely not the case. Today's events confirm this. The press got access to military equipment (captured — ed.), to a number of events held by the People's Militia, talked with the head of the Luhansk People's Republic (Leonid Pasechnik — ed.), that is, we are doing our best to support the initiative of representatives of the Western press, who are not afraid and want to objectively show the situation in the Lugansk People's Republic now,» Filiponenko said. He specified that representatives of more than ten foreign media have arrived in the republic. Filiponenko specified that the journalists who arrived are given the opportunity to see with their own eyes what is happening in the Donbass and personally get acquainted with the situation. «I am grateful to the Ministry of Defense (RF — ed.) for organizing (press tour — ed.) — I myself I probably didn’t dare … I’m grateful to the channel, which saw (meaning — ed.) that the film crew would still come from Moscow, ”Arij Mohammed, a correspondent for Sky News Arabia, told RIA Novosti.
Western media: Azov militants are not Nazis. Because they are not GermansThe journalist is pleased that her TV channel sees the need for objectivity and wanted to cover what is happening in Ukraine not only from the Ukrainian position, but also from the opposite one. 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 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 emphasized. tell
