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SEVERODONETSK (LPR), May 29. The forces of the People's Militia of the LPR entrenched themselves on the outskirts of the city of Severodonetsk in the Donbass , a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the scene. According to him, the Ukrainian security forces are hitting residential areas that they had previously left. A large arsenal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krivoy RogOn Friday, the People's Militia of the LPR, together with Russian fighters, blocked the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city and cut off all their escape routes. As Defense Ministry spokesman Andrei Marochko noted, one bridge from the city has been destroyed, the second will not withstand military equipment, and the third is controlled by the forces of the LPR. 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.» As stated in the Ministry of Defense, the Russian army by the end of March had completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal.