Independence Square in Kyiv. Archive photoLUGANSK, May 11.Achieving peace is impossible without the elimination of the current Kyiv regime, controlled from the outside, Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador of the Luhansk People's Republic to Russia, said in an interview with RIA Novosti. «, — he said. According to Miroshnik, now the territory of Ukraine is under external influence and controlled by the West. «Therefore, until these strings that pull the puppets on the territory of Ukraine are cut, until people there get freedom of choice, until if the military capabilities of striking or threatening the national security of both the LPR, the DPR, and the Russian Federation are not removed, unfortunately, it will not be possible to feel calm until now. in the hands of foreign regimes,» the LPR ambassador said.The West is preparing for eternal warRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. 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 RF Ministry of Defense, as of March 25, 93% of the former Lugansk region, within whose borders a republic was proclaimed, had been liberated. />How Russia does not turn into Ukraine
