Servicemen of the People's Militia of the DPR. File photoDONETSK, May 18.The people's militia of the Donetsk People's Republic reported that since the beginning of the day, the military republics have destroyed 30 Ukrainian nationalists. «Since the beginning of the current day, our servicemen have destroyed 30 Ukrainian nationalists, three firing points, one UAV «Fury», one armored vehicle and two assault vehicles «Pegasus», — the message of the People's Militia in Telegram reads.The masks have been dropped: the West has exposed its Nazi essenceIt is noted that the DPR forces also captured one 122-mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system, two armored vehicles and three trucks. «We regret to inform you that over the past 24 hours in the struggle for independence, three defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic died in the line of military duty and 12 were injured,» the report says. 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, 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. What Ukrainian artillerymen did in Donbass