Leonid Slutsky. Archival photoMOSCOW May 23. The «point of no return» of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine has been passed, there is no task to sacrifice human lives for the quick seizure of territories, said the leader of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, Leonid Slutsky.
" ;A special military operation will put everything in its place. The point of no return has been passed, the blitzkrieg did not work because we put human life at the forefront. It was possible to kill people and take Kyiv a long time ago, but there is no task to do this at the cost of human life,» the politician said during a meeting of the Liberal Democratic Party with war veterans. According to the parliamentarian, now we need to think about those who are fighting for their ideals — "for the Russian language, for Russian civilization".
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, 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. victims of fighting in Donbass