Car traffic on a street in DonetskSIMFEROPOL, Feb 20An advanced group of volunteers from Crimea arrived in Donbass to assist residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and protect their right to self-determination, Andrei Kozenko, coordinator of the Russia-Donbass Integration Committee, told RIA Novosti on Sunday. «An advanced group of volunteers from Crimea is already in Donbass. Donbass continues to be at the forefront, subjected to brutal armed aggression by Ukrainian militants. In recent days, the situation has escalated to the limit,» Kozenko told RIA Novosti. />The committee «Russia-Donbass» told why the United States needs a war in the regionThe group of volunteers is headed by Kozenko himself and the ataman of the Black Sea Cossack army Anton Sirotkin. «As a citizen of Russia, I not only feel my responsibility, but also consider it my duty to be with people who are fighting for their rights. We must help and protect the right of the people of Donbass to self-determination,» Kozenko emphasized. People's Militia of the LPR Ivan Filiponenko, volunteers arrive in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic from the CIS countries and even from Western countries. The leadership of the DPR and LPR announced the temporary evacuation of citizens to the Rostov region in connection with the threat of Ukraine's invasion. It primarily concerns women, children and the elderly. As the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin stated, Zelensky will soon give the order to the military to launch an offensive in the Donbass, to implement a plan to invade the DPR and LPR. On Saturday, the leaders of the DPR and LPR signed decrees on general mobilization.The development of the situation in Donbass is in the online report >>
