DPR Head Denis Pushilin at a press conference in Donetsk. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 6The Donbas town of Svyatogorsk may be liberated in the coming days, said the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin. he is on the air of the TV channel «Russia 1». Speaking about the operational situation in general, Pushilin expressed the opinion that the Ukrainian forces are waiting for the encirclement, although he did not specify in which areas. «There are prerequisites to say that boilers, tactical bags will be organized,» he noted.Ukrainian militants set fire to the wooden skete of the Svyatogorsk Lavra Russia launched a 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. Earlier it was reported that there were fights for Svyatogorsk. As the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters last weekend, Ukrainian militants set fire to the wooden hermitage of All Saints of the Russian Land in Svyatogorsk with a burst of incendiary ammunition from a machine gun during their retreat. The skete was built in 2009 on the site of the All Saints Church, which was blown up in 1947, in the tradition of Russian wooden architecture of the 16th-17th centuries. Prior to this, the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra fell under the shelling of Ukrainian troops. On March 13, a bomb fell 50 meters from the bridge that connects the right and left banks of the Seversky Donets River and is located at the entrance to the Svyatogorsk Lavra. The blast wave in the temples of the Lavra and hotels knocked out windows and doors, there were no dead. At the same time, more than 500 refugees, including 200 children, were on the territory of the monastery. How DPR troops surprised Kyiv
