Servicemen of the Ukrainian army. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 24.A sabotage group of five people was detained in Energodar, said Alexei Selivanov, deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Zaporozhye region. consisted of two criminals and three teroborontsev. Moreover, one of them was forcibly recorded there,» he said on the air of Channel One. The special forces of the Russian Guard destroyed a sabotage group in the Kyiv region. According to him, the main task of such saboteurs is to intimidate local residents who have already seen that «the Russians have brought peace and security to the Zaporozhye region.» 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 the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
