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MOSCOW, 6 Jun. Ukrainian nationalist formations acting as barrier detachments blew up a bridge across the Seversky Donets River to prevent the Ukrainian Armed Forces from retreating from Svyatogorsk, said Igor Konashenkov, official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense. airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine abandoned military equipment along with weapons and dispersed along the coast,» the general said. According to him, up to eighty Ukrainian military men crossed the river by swimming, they did not purposefully open fire on them. led by nationalists as the only right thing to do, not cowardice,” Konashenkov stressed.»Everything will be decided in four days.» How did the DPR troops surprise Kiev?He also called on all the military and members of the territorial defense units of Ukraine to follow this example and stop «thoughtless resistance in order to save their lives.» The Russian Armed Forces, in turn, guarantees all those who voluntarily laid down their arms decent treatment and return to their families, the Defense Ministry spokesman added. northern part of the Donetsk People's Republic, just over forty kilometers southeast of the city of Izyum, Kharkiv region, which is under the control of the Russian military. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military special 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, the Russian army has already completed the main tasks of the first stage — it has significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal.