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SBU officers during a raid in KharkovVOLCHANSK (Kharkiv region), May 4 Ukrainian nationalists staged terror in the village of Stary Saltov, Kharkiv region, and are taking away in an unknown direction everyone who «sympathizes with the Russian side,» a source at the headquarters of the military-civilian administration of the liberated territories told RIA Novosti. «To the village of Stary Saltov, which is located on the banks of the Seversky Donets River, under the guise of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the punitive units of the SBU, as well as the newly formed Kraken battalion, recruited from amnestied Ukrainian criminals, entered,» the source of the agency also said. On February 24, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to harassment and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian armed forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. The army has already completed the main task of the first stage — it significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the operation in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.