An employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR. Archival photo TROITSKOYE (LPR), May 27. In the village of Troitskoye, Popasnyansky district, a mock-up of the area was discovered, which may indicate that Ukrainian forces were preparing an offensive, soldiers of the 6th Motorized Rifle Cossack Regiment named after Matvey Platov told RIA Novosti. The settlement, located near the administrative border of the LPR and the DPR, recently came under the control of the Lugansk People's Republic, before that Ukrainian security forces were stationed there for eight years. Now from the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine there are abandoned trenches and fortified structures, as well as broken armored vehicles. Soldiers of the sixth motorized rifle Cossack regiment named after Matvey Platov showed RIA Novosti the former headquarters of the Ukrainian troops. They found a layout of the area in it, on which the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the places of concentration of equipment are marked. that Ukrainian troops could prepare for an offensive. After the flight of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, only cats live in the former headquarters. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, by the end of March, the Russian army had completed the main tasks of the first stage — it significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the department was the liberation of Donbass.
