Residents leave Mariupol in a car with «Family» signMOSCOW, Apr 2Ukrainian troops shot civilians who tried to evacuate from the city of Rubizhne in the Luhansk People's Republic to Russia, Denis Nuryga, a former junior sergeant of the Aidar national battalion, who surrendered and defected to Russia, said. According to him, there are cases when people tried to leave Rubizhne and come to Russia, and they were shot by Ukrainian units.In «Aidar» they recognize only their Bandera, said the ex-fighter of the National Battalion «My friend's good mother-in-law — she was shot by Ukrainian troops. The column was shot by Ukrainian troops in order not to let people into the territory of the Russian Federation,» Nuryga said. fights are going on right now. To the southeast of the city are Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, the only major settlements in the LNR under Kyiv's control. On March 25, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that since the end of February, the republic has regained control over 93% of the territory of the former Lugansk region of Ukraine, within whose borders it was proclaimed. >Residents of Rubizhne in the LPR were left without gas after the shelling of the Armed Forces of UkraineRussia 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 Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
