Leonid Pasechnik. File photoRUBEZHNOE (LPR), April 25The head of the Lugansk People's Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, arrived in Rubizhne, on the outskirts of which the cleansing continues, to assess the situation in the city, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Earlier, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, wrote on the Telegram channel that his adviser announced the complete release of Rubizhnoye. «The situation is here quite complex and tense. Now I was talking with the appointed senior in the city Sergey Ivanovich (mayor of Rubizhnoye Sergey Hortiv — ed.), He reported that all the tasks I had set were being fulfilled, «the head of the republic told reporters. According to Pasechnik, now the city is trying to organize regular distribution of water despite continued shelling by Ukrainian forces. «The enemy, as soon as he sees a crowd of people, fires quite accurately at the same place. Mines fall in these places, shelling begins, so it is quite difficult to do this,» Pasechnik explained. The head of the republic said that the republic also organized the supply of humanitarian help, basic necessities and drinking water.» It is gratifying that the mayor is already worried about planting, about the sowing season, he asked for a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture and announced that the sown land is ready somewhere, ready to sow, grow wheat and feed the population. This is very gratifying for the republic. We see that no one can break our spirit. Even in such a situation, a person thinks how to live on and what to do,» Pasechnik said.
Russian Armed Forces and DPR forces stop fighting near Azovstal 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 Kyiv 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.
