Power lines. Archival photoKUPYANSK (Kharkiv region), April 20 The power outage in Kupyansk, the third largest city in the Kharkiv region and a major railway junction, as well as in other settlements of the Kharkiv region liberated by Russian troops, occurred intentionally, done this is from Kharkov, a representative of the provisional civil administration of Kupyansk told RIA Novosti. .
Nationalists are deploying heavy weapons in residential areas of Kharkov On the eve of the RIA Novosti correspondent reported that in Kupyansk suddenly turned off the light in homes and institutions, while the overall situation in the city was calm. A representative of the administration of Kupyansk, in a conversation with RIA Novosti, named two versions: damage to power lines and sabotage by the Ukrainian side. In addition to a large railway junction, important throughout Eastern Ukraine, the city has more than a dozen enterprises, including a machine-building plant. Kupyansk has been under the control of Russian security forces for a month, on March 22, the Russian Guard reported that it had delivered more than 80 tons of humanitarian aid to the city , residents were given food kits with essential products — cereals, pasta, sugar, canned food, tea, condensed milk, butter. his daughter, and the family received death threats against her. Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin called this situation monstrous and called on the world community to watch a video message from the mayor of Kupyansk, in which Ukrainian nationalists beat people and place tanks and machine guns in houses. 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 the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
