Fighter of the People's Militia of the LPR at a position near the village of Slavyanoserbsk, Luhansk regionLUGANSK, Feb. 4 information campaign against the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, said the official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, Ivan Filiponenko. This is how he commented on the blocking of information channels of the DPR and LPR by YouTube video hosting.
"The attack on the information resources of Donbass is part of a special information campaign Crushing sword, which we have already reported. Today's events contradict the statement of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny about the absence of plans for an attack on the Donbass and indicate that the enemy's plan has remained unchanged and the company is in the active phase,» Filiponenko explained.
He also stressed that about half of the channel's viewers The people's militia was made up of residents of the territory of Donbass controlled by Kiev.Facebook blocked the page of the People's Militia of the LPR «The residents of Ukraine are also interested in the real state of affairs at the front, since the Ukrainian media simply do not give the opportunity to objectively assess what is happening on the front line and in the republics,» the representative of the department added. He called the blocking of channels another element of the blockade of the DPR and LPR, this time informational. The LPR announced at the end of January that the Ukrainian special services, with the support of the West, are developing a special information campaign code-named Crushing sword. Republican intelligence concluded that its goal is to accuse Russia and the Donbass republics of aggression against Kiev. The day before, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that Moscow was preparing a staged video, which, according to him, the Kremlin intends to use as a pretext for invading Ukraine. US State Department spokesman Ned Price, in response to a request from journalists to provide evidence of these allegations, offered to take the word of the American government, and if you don’t like it, look for “consolation” in Russian information. jpg» />Kiev has restricted the exit of citizens of military age from the country, they said in the DNRIn the summer of 2020, additional measures to ensure a truce came into force in the Donbass. They imply a complete ban on firing, placing weapons in and near populated areas, offensive and reconnaissance and sabotage operations. The engineering equipment of positions and the use of drones near the line of contact are also prohibited. Nevertheless, the situation remains tense: Kiev has concentrated half of the army’s personnel near the line of demarcation and regularly shells the militias. The situation is aggravated by the actions of the United States and NATO, which send military instructors, weapons and equipment to Ukraine, increase the number of exercises, thereby pushing Kiev to military adventures. Moscow rejects all accusations of preparing aggression and recalls that Ukraine does not comply with the Minsk agreements. The Kremlin and the Foreign Ministry have repeatedly pointed out that the West is escalating the situation in order to increase the grouping of troops near the Russian borders. 
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