Destroyed APU equipment near Severodonetsk. File photoMOSCOW, May 18.Fighting in Severodonetsk is already taking place within the city, the operation to liberate it continues «in the active phase,» Lieutenant Colonel of the People's Militia of the LPR Andrei Marochko said on Wednesday. point, we inflict fire damage on clusters of equipment and armed forces of Ukraine, we are on the outskirts of this settlement,» Marochko said. «In principle, the operation to liberate these settlements is in the active phase,» he said on Channel One.The people's militia of the LPR liberated the settlement of OrekhovoRussia 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. The main directions of the offensive of the Russian troops in the southeast, together with the units of the DPR, are the largest city of Mariupol in the Sea of u200bu200bAzov region (the city is completely controlled by the RF Armed Forces, only militants who have settled on Azovstal remain) and, together with people's militia of the LPR — Severodonetsk.
