Abandoned military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the LPRLUHANSK, Mar 26Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Lugansk People's Republic in the Starobilsk region found seven dead Ukrainian servicemen in a column of burnt equipment of Ukrainian security forces, they managed to establish the identity of one of them, they are ready to give his body to his relatives, RIA Novosti was told at the Center for Public Relations (DSP) of the department. «It was discovered A completely burned-out infantry fighting vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Judging by the nature of the damage, the shell hit right inside the vehicle. The crew inside was killed. According to local residents, the retreating Ukrainian military convoy was fired upon by the Aidar battalion. A little further, in the forest belt, another one was found BMP, in which the corpse of a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was located. During the shelling, he was mortally wounded, «said the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He specified that during the initial examination of the body of the serviceman, documents, phone numbers of his relatives and photographs were found.» that he stopped contacting 24 February. No information about his fate was received from colleagues or from the command. Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR, together with forensic experts, removed the body of the deceased driver of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from an infantry fighting vehicle and delivered it to the morgue in the city of Starobelsk. The Luhansk People's Republic is ready to hand over the body of the deceased to the family,» a representative of the department said.The Russian General Staff estimated the losses of Ukrainian troops during the month of the special operation. He specified that in the same area of the area, police officers found another body of a Ukrainian soldier, without identification documents. And also, when examining a burned-out car that was walking in the same convoy, the remains of five more people were found. According to these facts, further verification is being carried out. 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. weapons to avoid losses
