LPR Interior Ministry fighter in Kupyansk. File photoKUPYANSK (KHARKIV REGION), May 9. From now on, May 9 will be celebrated in the old, Soviet traditions without «European days of mourning,» said Vitaly Ganchev, head of the temporary civil administration of the liberated territories of the Kharkiv region, congratulating the veterans of the city Kupyansk.» We will try now to make every effort to normalize life … and Kupyansk, and the entire region, work is underway in this direction. We will try to make this holiday for you the way our grandfathers immortalized it. We will not break any traditions. How it should be, how it is right, not according to some someone else's orders. We have our ancestors, our traditions,» Ganchev said, addressing the veterans. 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.Celebration of Victory Day. Online reportage >>>
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