Leonid Slutsky, head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Archival photoMARIUPOL, May 21.The head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Leonid Slutsky, during a visit to Donetsk, called the heroic actions of the defenders of Donbass who opposed the wave of expansion of neo-Nazism in Ukraine, which, according to him, was ultimately aimed at undermining the statehood of Russia, true patriotism. Slutsky and his party members in the Liberal Democratic Party on Saturday they are in the DPR, where they met with the main republic, Denis Pushiliy. «As for the true patriotism of the Russian Donbass … True heroism, which lies in the fact that almost every family was ready, including <…> to give even their lives and many gave their lives simply to speak Russian, to teach children in Russian, to resist the expansion of the wave of neo-Nazism into the territory of Ukraine, which was ultimately aimed at undermining the statehood of Russia,» the Russian politician told reporters. Slutsky noted, that the Donbass also resisted those forces of the collective West who believed and used steam in their policy the idiom of American policy formulated by Zbigniew Brzezinski, according to which «Russia is a superpower with Ukraine, and vice versa without it, and therefore we must by all means tear Ukraine away from Russia.» .jpg» />Slutsky predicted «significant events» in DonbasRussia 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 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.
