Fighters of the Akhmat Kadyrov regiment help local residents evacuate from Popasnaya in the LPR. . Archive photoLUGANSK, May 9.About 1.3 thousand residents of Popasna were evacuated by the military of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic and the Russian forces to Pervomaisk during the battles for the city, the head of the city administration Sergey Kolyagin told RIA Novosti. from Ukrainian troops. Later, the People's Militia of the LPR confirmed that the city of Popasnaya in the Donbass is completely controlled by the forces of the Luhansk People's Republic and the forces of the Russian Federation. a little more than 500 remain in temporary accommodation centers,» Kolyagin said. He specified that the LPR authorities allocated food packages from the state reserve for refugees, and public figures from the Russian Federation also help with humanitarian aid. According to Kolyagin, at the moment the evacuation mechanism has not changed, people are taken out only by military personnel who control Popasnaya.Kadyrov showed footage from the liberated city of Popasnaya in the LPR «People from Popasnaya, to which about 10 kilometers arrive only with the help of military personnel, because traffic outside the city of Pervomaisk is not at all safe,» the mayor explained. 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.
