Ambassador of the Luhansk People's Republic in Russia Rodion Miroshnik. Archival photoLUGANSK, May 11. Foreign mercenaries fighting for Kyiv must be punished, Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador of the Lugansk People's Republic in Russia, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
"The mercenaries who arrived into our territory, came to kill and earn money. We are waging a war for freedom and the opportunity to survive and build our lives. So here we fundamentally disagree. We consider the foreign mercenaries who have arrived on our territory to be criminals who must be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. This is a very serious punishment for mercenarism and for conducting criminal activities, and violating the laws of war", Miroshnik said.
February 24, Russia has been conducting a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The main goal of the operation in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.