St. PETERSBURG, June 16 Vladimir Zelensky should be held as a military man within the international tribunal a criminal, the head of the Luhansk People's Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, said in an interview with RIA Novosti. «Of course, he, as the most important war criminal (as Hitler was during the Great Patriotic War, who organized everything), he is a spiritual inspirer, so all orders, of course, are given It doesn't matter whether he fulfills the will of the West or acts on his own, it's his choice, he made it, he kills civilians, he will be responsible for this,» the head of the LPR said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. 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 the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
