APU. Archival photo DONETSK, April 16 Among the Ukrainian military, mass surrender can be expected, and internal conflicts are possible up to military clashes between surrendering and ideological fanatics, an adviser to the head of the government of the Donetsk People's Republic said in an interview with RIA Novosti Yan Gagin.» I assume that even internal conflicts and some internal conflicts are possible, up to clashes inside, because, say, fanatics will not be happy that one of their colleagues will try to surrender, and, perhaps , it will even come to fire clashes between them, and they will reduce themselves,» Gagin said. The adviser to the head of the DPR government emphasized that in addition to those who would be ready to surrender, there are also fanatically ideological representatives of the Azov nationalist group, against the fighters of which criminal cases have been initiated in Russia. Gagin expects that soon «the enemy will come to understand that attempts to resist further are useless.» Russia launched a special 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.» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on 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.
