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Order of the Patriotic War veteran of the Great Patriotic War. File photoMOSCOW, May 4.Press Secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov said that payments to veterans of the Great Patriotic War living in the Donbass and the liberated territories of Ukraine are what is needed, speeches about Russian control over liberated territories are not. The day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on lump-sum payments to veterans of the Great Patriotic War living in the Donbass and in the liberated territories of Ukraine on Victory Day. jpg» />In Russian-controlled Melitopol, the banner of Victory was raised «The fact is that war veterans in various territories of Ukraine are deprived of the opportunity to receive any payments, benefits, and so on and so forth. And therefore, where it is possible to do this. Especially in on the eve of Victory Day to provide such payments — this is what is needed, and what is our duty. Here we are not talking about Russian control, we are talking about veterans. And about payments to them … This is what they are called, lump sum payments, » — Peskov answered a question from journalists about the reasons for including veterans from Donbass and Ukraine in the decree and the possibility of leaving the liberated territories of Ukraine under Russian control. 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.