Citizens receive humanitarian aid. File photoRUBEZHNOE (Donbass), March 19The People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic brought the first batch of humanitarian aid to the city of Rubizhne in the Donbass, Ivan Filiponenko, an official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, told reporters. There is no electricity and water supply in the village, food supplies were stopped, according to local residents, on March 5.
"Today we are trying to organize the local population here so that there is an understanding of how many people live where. We start helping with humanitarian aid. The first batch was brought accordingly. Residents from the previously controlled territories of the LPR are doing their best to help their compatriots, collecting humanitarian supplies, but we are trying to bring them here", Filiponenko explained.
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 harassment and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» electricity and water supply, the people's militia said. 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 only strike on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. 57InfographicsHumanitarian aid collection points for refugees from DonbassInfographicView