Broken window. Archival photo RUBTSY (DPR), May 24. Lugansk Cossacks from the LPR army, who operate in the north of the DPR, told RIA Novosti that the Ukrainian military mined social facilities and residential buildings in the settlements from which they retreated. According to them, in particular, several houses and a club in the village of Rubtsy on the border of the DPR and the Kharkiv region were mined. a device that can be easily made, but not so easy to clear mines. That is, if people start cleaning the territories of their homes, ordinary people, civilians, they lift the slate, the grenade works, it detonates. Therefore, we ask the locals to be very careful,» said a Luhansk Cossack. According to him, «local nationalists threw bottles of gasoline into the cellars of local residents, they quite actively intimidated everyone for their own gain.» Russia began a special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. 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.
