Soldiers of the Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov Special Purpose Police Regiment. File photoGROZNY, Apr 25The city of Rubizhne in the Lugansk People's Republic was completely liberated from Ukrainian nationalists, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov said on his Telegram channel. Kadyrov, the Akhmat special forces, together with the reconnaissance units of the 2nd Army Corps, attacked the last positions of the Ukrainians in the city. «Now the units of the Russian army and the LPR are cleaning up the basements and living quarters of the buildings of the city of Rubizhne, finishing off the remnants of Bandera. I congratulate the residents of the city of Rubizhnoe on their liberation from the criminal regime «, — concluded the head of Chechnya. Rubezhnoye is a small town in the west of the LPR. As of 2020, about 56 thousand people lived there. The city is home to the Zarya plant, the leading Ukrainian chemical industry enterprise, which produced, among other things, explosives and plant protection products. 
A resident of Rubizhne spoke about the humanitarian catastrophe in the cityFights for Rubizhne have been going on since the beginning of March. A difficult humanitarian situation has developed in the city: there is no water, electricity, gas, the population is hiding in basements. In addition, in early April, Ukrainian nationalists blew up a tank with nitric acid on the territory of the Zarya plant, which caused the release of toxic substances. On February 24, Russia launched a military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. According to President Vladimir Putin, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» Ukraine. The main task in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
