Servicemen of the People's Militia of the LPR. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 7The territory of Svyatogorsk has already been cleared by the LPR units, they are crossing the Seversky Donets River, said Vladimir Kiselev, Assistant Minister of the Interior of the Republic. «This situation is developing due to the successful advance of our troops in Svyatogorsk «The territory there has already been cleared by our units. Our units are already crossing the Seversky Donets, this is the latest information,» he said on Channel One. >Ukrainian military abandoned equipment and fled from Svyatogorsk Svyatogorsk (until 2003 Slavyanogorsk) is located in the northern part of the DPR, just over 40 kilometers southeast of the city of Izyum, Kharkiv region, which is under the control of the Russian military. In Svyatogorsk, on the high bank of the Seversky Donets River, there is the Assumption Monastery, which has the status of a Lavra. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. 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.
