Soldier of the military commandant's office of the LPRMOSCOW, Apr 1The People's Council of the Lugansk People's Republic on Friday adopted a law criminalizing fakes about the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Donbass republics, as well as for spreading deliberately false information about the functioning of state authorities of the Russian Federation, the LPR and the DPR, the press service of the People's Council of the Republic reports. to supplement the Criminal Code of the LPR with new articles, namely, Article 246/3, which establishes liability for the public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, the LPR and the DPR, the exercise by state bodies of the Russian Federation, the Luhansk People's Republic, the Donetsk People's Republic of their powers», — the report says. In addition, the press service reported, the bill proposes to supplement the Criminal Code with Article 341 1, establishing liability for public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, LPR and DPR. According to the chairman of the LPR People's Council Committee on issues of state security and defense, the work of law enforcement agencies and the judiciary, the rule of law, the protection of human and civil rights and freedoms Oleg Popov, this bill was submitted to the People's Council of the LPR by the head of the republic Leonid Pasechnik.
The Bulgarian media exposed a fake about a «downed Russian plane» in the Donbass. At the same time, as Popov explained, criminal liability under part 1 of article 341 1 of the Criminal Code of the LPR occurs if a person was previously brought to administrative responsibility for a similar act, in connection with which the code LPR on administrative offenses is supplemented by a new article 20.4.2. According to him, the adoption of the bill will have a preventive effect on citizens, officials and legal entities and will help ensure the security of the state and society. 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 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 Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
