Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov. Archival photoMOSCOW/GROZNY, May 5. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced the liberation of the settlement of Svetlichnoye in the Luhansk direction, where «the cleansing is being completed».
"Results of the day of the special operation in the Luhansk direction: the settlement of Svetlichnoye was completely liberated. Thanks to the coordinated actions of Chechen fighters under the leadership of … Major General Sharip Delimkhanov, together with the people's militia of the LPR and the forces of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, it became possible to take under absolute control the next territory where the bandits were outrageous", the head of Chechnya said.
According to him, a cleansing is currently being completed in Svetlichny. “Moreover, our special forces have already occupied the first quarters of another settlement, the village of Nizhnee. These are excellent results of the work that our fighters have done very competently,” Kadyrov wrote in his Telegram channel. He added that the next stage in the liberated territories is the holding of humanitarian events. The head of Chechnya said that everything would be done to restore normal life as soon as possible both in Svetlichny and in other areas of Donbass. He thanked all the fighters who coped with the task of releasing Svetlichny. operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv 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.