MOSCOW, Apr 19The Kremlin has not yet commented on the initiative of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia on exclusion from the moratorium on the death penalty, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov noted that he does not know whether this proposal has been formalized in the State Duma. Earlier, the Liberal Democratic Party proposed an exception to the moratorium on the death penalty for Ukrainian militants, who tortured civilians and the military of the Russian Federation. Leonid Slutsky, acting head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, proposed exchanging captured Ukrainian soldiers for specific Ukrainian nationalists, and if the party’s proposal to lift the moratorium on the death penalty for a specific category of persons is accepted, apply this measure to them. He also noted that in the near future the Liberal Democratic Party will hold consultations on this issue with experts on what changes will need to be made to the legislation.10:44The aggravation of the situation in the DPR and the LNRLDPR proposed to return the death penalty specifically for Ukrainian militants»This is a new proposal. And I don't know if there were any movements in the Duma on this matter, I mean in terms of formalizing this initiative. Until I ready to talk about some kind of reaction,» he told reporters. 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 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.
