LPR People's Militia ServicemanLUGANSK, Mar 25The People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic received from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation the weapons and equipment of the Ukrainian security forces, received during a special operation on the territory of Ukraine, including NLAW anti-tank grenade launchers, Ivan Filiponenko, the official representative of the defense department of the Republic, told reporters. Numerous samples of Ukrainian and foreign production were handed over to the Russian Defense Ministry. Some of the equipment is in the process of being restored, a number of samples are in combat readiness, and all of them will be put into service by the People's Militia and will perform the tasks for their intended purpose, that is, to liberate the territories of the LPR,» Filiponenko said. He clarified that the Russian Defense Ministry handed over a tank, armored combat vehicles, armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, a self-propelled gun mount, the Osa anti-aircraft missile system, as well as samples of foreign-made equipment and weapons, including anti-tank controls received NLAW systems and the British Sahon armored fighting vehicle. Earlier, Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoy, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said that the Russian army handed over captured weapons seized from Ukrainian troops to the DPR and LPR, including tanks, American anti-tank missile systems Javelin and NLAW grenade launchers. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» 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 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian president emphasized.
