Chairman of the Crimean Parliament Vladimir Konstantinov. Archival photoSIMFEROPOL, Mar 27 The Crimean delegation arrived on an official visit to Donbass, said the head of the delegation, Chairman of the Crimean Parliament Vladimir Konstantinov. The delegation also included deputies of the regional parliament and State Duma deputies elected from Crimea.» «Today we arrived in Donetsk with a Crimean delegation. We traditionally provide assistance to our brothers from Donbass and are always ready to lend them our shoulder,» Konstantinov wrote on his Telegram channel. Tomorrow it will be handed over to the leadership of the people's republics,» Konstantinov emphasized. In addition, according to him, the delegation has already met with the leadership of the DPR and LPR and handed over two certificates for 150 trips to Crimean health camps for children of the people's republics, as well as equipment for medical offices two schools. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. 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 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. Potemkin in strengthening the south of Russia
