Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin. Archival photoDONETSK, May 14. Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin awarded the personnel in Donetsk with the medals «Valor and Courage», RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Bastrykin arrived in Donetsk and awarded the personnel with the medals «Valour and Courage» . Investigators in the Donbass are working in extreme conditions, on the front lines, in the shelling zone. 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 abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
