Ukrainian military. Archival photoNOVOTROITSKOYE (Donetsk region), March 19 During the retreat, the Ukrainian military blew up the bridge on the Donetsk-Mariupol highway, without warning local residents and damaging their houses, one of the eyewitnesses told RIA Novosti.
& #34;Hours at nine in the evening blew up. There is a wave, you know what. It seems that up to half a ton of TNT was laid there. The houses were damaged", the agency’s interlocutor said.
The Ukrainian military is blowing up bridges everywhere, trying to delay the advance of the Russian army and the military of the DPR and LPR. 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 abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DNR and LNR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. , said a citizen of the DPR