A man enters the building of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 24The Investigative Committee of Russia will ask the Ministry of Defense for information about the impending provocation in Lisichansk in the LPR, according to the Telegram channel of the RF Investigative Committee. Lugansk People's Republic,» the message says. Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the SBU was preparing a new provocation in Lisichansk in the LPR, for this, representatives of Western media arrived in the city, who had previously staged photo and video shooting in Bucha. «The Investigative Committee of Russia will study this information in order to identify the persons involved in the organization of provocations, and subsequently give a criminal-legal assessment of their actions,» the Investigative Committee added. 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, 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.
