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Fighters of the People's Militia of the DPR . Archival photoDONETSK, May 7. Ukrainian troops in the Donetsk direction lost 36 personnel and military equipment in a day, the People's Militia of the DPR reports. «Over the past day, our servicemen destroyed 36 Ukrainian nationalists, two 120-mm mortars, three infantry fighting vehicles and one truck with ammunition. One infantry fighting vehicle and two armored personnel carriers were captured,» the message says. SettlementsRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Russian Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage of the special operation — 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. In the LPR, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, as of March 25, 93% of the former Lugansk region, within whose borders a republic was proclaimed, had been liberated. />Russian aviation destroyed up to 280 nationalists