A large banner with Alexander Nevsky was hung in the center of Lugansk on Victory Day and Republic Day. Archival photoLUGANSK, May 9. An exhibition of equipment and weapons, including captured Ukrainian ones, is taking place in Lugansk, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. including children who are happy to climb tanks and equipment, disassemble and assemble machine guns. Here are tanks, armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles that are in service with the People's Militia of the LPR, as well as trophy ones captured from the Ukrainian military and nationalists. In particular, the exhibition features the British-made Saxon armored vehicle, Ukrainian Kozak and Cougar vehicles, NLAW and LAW anti-tank systems, and the Ukrainian Fury drone. 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.
