Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan KadyrovGROZNY, Apr 3 Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov said that residents Donbass, where the special operation of the Russian Federation is taking place, is actively helping Russian soldiers in identifying saboteurs and eliminating enemy sniper points. «The elimination of sniper pillboxes, the identification of saboteurs and gunners directly on the front line allows our units to successfully move forward with minimal losses among personnel. Active assistance in this work is provided by the local population, which suffered from Bandera. Thanks to operational information from local residents, Chechen units <…> have already identified dozens of caches with weapons and covered another sabotage group, «Kadyrov said in his Telegram channel. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and as of March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was the liberation of Donbass. At the moment, the strategically important regional center of Volnovakha south of Donetsk has been liberated in the DPR, and battles are underway for Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov. In the LPR, according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense on March 25, 93% of the territory of the former Lugansk region was taken under control. Only the cities of Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, as well as a number of other settlements of this agglomeration, remain under the authority of Kyiv.
