Ambulances on the territory of the LPRLUGANSK, Feb 23Several improvised explosive devices were used in a terrorist attack near a trolleybus depot in Lugansk, Aleksey Getmansky, an officer of the LPR representation in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC), told reporters. the depot exploded. «This morning, on February 23, a series of explosions occurred in Luhansk along Dneprovskaya Street. LNR officers in the JCCC went to the scene. them — ed.) with a high-explosive home-made explosive device of directional action,» the LPR officer said at the JCCC. «There was an explosion 70 meters from the pyrotechnics warehouse. If the pyrotechnics had been removed, there could have been more global consequences that could civilian casualties,» Hetmansky added.
«Nationalists drink champagne». How did Ukraine perceive the recognition of the LDNRS? 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. First of all, the evacuation concerns women, children and the elderly. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky may soon order the military to go on the offensive, to implement a plan to invade the DPR and LPR. On February 19, the leaders of the DPR and LPR signed decrees on general mobilization, and then turned to Russia with a request to recognize the independence of the republics. Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the citizens of the Russian Federation on Monday after the meeting of the Security Council and said that he considers it necessary to immediately recognize the sovereignty of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics . He noted that the world prefers not to notice the horror and genocide in the Donbass, not a single day goes by without shelling, the killings of civilians and the blockade do not stop. As the President stated, in case of further bloodshed in the Donbass, the entire responsibility will be on the Kiev regime. Immediately after the appeal, the president in the Kremlin signed decrees recognizing the LPR and the DPR. In his decrees, Putin instructed to ensure the maintenance of peace in the DPR and LPR by the armed forces of the Russian Federation. Later, the Russian president said that Russia proposed to solve the problem of Donbass through peaceful negotiations and the implementation of the Minsk agreements, but this item has lost its relevance. According to him, the Minsk agreements were brought to naught by the efforts of the current Kiev authorities. He also added that the situation in Donbas tends to escalate.The development of the situation in Donbas is in the online report >>
