A resident of the liberated village of Pervomaiskoye receives humanitarian aid. Archival photoLUGANSK, April 3 Soldiers of nationalist battalions take away humanitarian aid from civilians in the territories of Donbass they control, Victoria Serdyukova, human rights ombudsman in the Luhansk People's Republic, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
"Sometimes cars with this humanitarian aid arrive from the territory of Ukraine. People under shelling come to that part of the city where the humanitarian convoy will be located, representatives of the national battalions arrive there with weapons in their hands, and they forbid them to receive this humanitarian aid. They take her for themselves. This is not an isolated case, which we know about from the words of those people who are now here,” she said. ombudsman.
According to Serdyukova, in Severodonetsk, Rubizhne and Kremennaya controlled by Kiev, nationalists drove people out of basements and bomb shelters.
"As the armed formations of Ukraine got there, they did not hesitate to force them to leave the basements, they were forced to go up to the upper floors to the apartments", the Ombudsman said.
She stressed that all crimes are recorded, this information will be transferred to the Prosecutor General's Office of the LPR, and then to all international organizations. On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. 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.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. By March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.