Leo Tolstoy Street in Kyiv. Archival photoRUBEZHNOE (LPR), May 1. Apty Alaudinov, assistant to the head of Chechnya on the security bloc, said that he would not refuse to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in Kyiv, but so far there are still a number of tasks on the front line in the Donbass . «We all keep the fast. None of us has broken his fast yet. When asked where we are going to meet him (Eid al-Fitr holiday — ed.), Of course, it would be desirable to meet him in Kyiv in the office of Zelensky (Vladimir Zelensky — ed.), so that he still runs the table for us, let's see what the outcome will be … For now, we will meet him here at the front,» Alaudinov told reporters. 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 genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of 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 the liberation of Donbass. On April 19, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the start of the next phase of the special operation. Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, and Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, have been liberated in the DPR; the remnants of the enemy grouping are blocked on the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant. In the LPR, according to the RF Ministry of Defense, as of March 25, 93% of the former Luhansk region, within whose borders a republic was proclaimed in 2014, has been liberated. The cities of Severodonetsk, Lysichansk and a number of other settlements of this agglomeration remain under the control of Kyiv.
