A soldier displays fragments of ammunition. File photoLUHANSK, Apr 19The situation in the city of Rubizhnoye in the Lugansk People's Republic is tense, Ukrainian military personnel still remain in it, there are fierce shellings, Anna Soroka, First Deputy Foreign Minister of the LPR, head of the «We will not forget, we will not forgive» fund, told RIA Novosti. «It's hard. Power ( LPR) is already being established a little, a mayor has been appointed… He is trying to organize (peaceful life) to do, there are points where people flock for medical and humanitarian assistance. But in general, the situation is shelling, very brutal shelling,» Soroka said. In particular , points of distribution of humanitarian aid and points of collection of people for evacuation suffer from shelling. «This situation has been like this for a month and a half,» a representative of the LPR Foreign Ministry noted. At the same time, the Ukrainian military «know perfectly well where they are shooting.» “This territory was under them for eight years. They know this territory, they know where people live. They know where they gather,” Soroka said. According to her, the Ukrainian military uses drones for reconnaissance.»Only IS does that.» An American journalist was amazed at the atrocities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces When asked if Ukrainian militants remained in Rubizhne itself, Soroka answered: «Yes.» In particular, the other day, the fund’s employees managed to get a 46-year-old man with a group II disability in psychiatry out of Rubizhnoye. “He was in an extreme degree of exhaustion. I shot off my finger,» Soroka said. His bedridden mother had to be left in Rubizhne. Volunteers returned for it on Saturday, but «couldn't get through, because there are fights going on, snipers are sitting.» 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 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and on 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 called the liberation of Donbass.
