Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky. File photoDONETSK, May 21. The LDPR party can open its headquarters on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic if the inhabitants of the DPR so desire, the head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, told reporters Leonid Slutsky.» It depends on whether the inhabitants of Donbass want this? We did not come with expansion. We came to help. We do not have the task of promoting PR on someone's grief. Today's Donbass is a point of effort for those who want to help the Russian world,” Slutsky said, answering a journalist’s question whether the LDPR party plans to open a headquarters on the territory of the DPR. Zaporozhye NPPRussia 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.
