Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 2. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that during the offensive of the fighters of the LPR and Chechnya in the Luhansk People's Republic, Ukrainian troops fired artillery at the positions of their own forces because of panic. «Work to destroy Bandera continues, the offensive is going on rapidly. Captured weapons and ammunition, abandoned by the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a hurry, have been seized. Panic is observed in the ranks of the Ukrainian military, as a result of which the enemy used artillery on the positions of his own personnel, which provided invaluable assistance to the Russian troops!» — the head of Chechnya said. Russia has been conducting a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine since February 24. As Vladimir Putin emphasized, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The ministry called the liberation of Donbas the main goal of the operation.
