Servicemen of the People's Militia of the LPR on a T-80 tank near the village of Toshkovka. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 20 Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov announced the liberation of the village of Toshkovka in the Luhansk People's Republic. He wrote about this in the Telegram channel. «Hero of Russia Zamid Chalaev, commander of units in the Luhansk direction, reported on the liberation of the Toshkovka settlement from the Nazi evil spirits,» the message says. Toshkovka is one of the villages located in the direction of Lisichansk. Its capture allows the LPR forces to develop a further offensive against the city. This also poses a threat to the encirclement of the Ukrainian military in Gorsky and Zolote. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin emphasized, its goal is “to protect 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 completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the department was the liberation of Donbass. Thus, Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, and Svyatogorsk, which houses a large Orthodox monastery with the status of a lavra, have already been liberated in the DPR. Almost the entire territory of the republic has been liberated in the LPR, with the exception of the city of Lisichansk and the industrial zone of Severodonetsk. .2022
