Kremennaya (LPR), Apr 22Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters of the LPR delivered the first humanitarian cargo to the previously liberated city of Kremennaya, head of the department Yevgeny Katsavalov told RIA Novosti. the city of Kremennaya was taken under full control, which the nationalists turned into a fortified area, it was possible to avoid serious destruction of urban infrastructure and residential buildings. Kremennaya is a strategically important city in the war zone in the Donbass. Control over Kremennaya will allow entering the city of Rubizhnoye, for which fighting is still going on, from the rear positions of the enemy. «They brought humanitarian aid, about 12 tons. Now there is a problem with electricity, a problem with gas, it seems like there are no problems with water, but now we will also find out at substations how it is possible to connect or reconnect,» the minister said. and communicate with the remaining local authorities in the city. Local residents, in turn, told RIA Novosti that the humanitarian situation in the city is difficult: there is no electricity, gas, and partly water supply. According to them, there is nowhere to buy groceries in the city and there is nothing to pay, since the shops are closed and ATMs do not work. «We would like bread and buckwheat … The situation with food is bad. There is practically nothing,» said a local resident, who is in the bomb shelter of the city hospital .Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at 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.
