Artillerymen fire at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Archival photoPOPASNAYA (LPR), June 6 Artillerymen of the Lugansk People's Republic entrenched themselves on the outskirts of the liberated city of Popasnaya and are attacking Ukrainian positions, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The agency's journalists filmed the crew of a 152-millimeter howitzer cannon D-20. According to the fighters of the People's Militia of the LPR, fighting is now continuing in the areas of Kamyshevakhi and Toshkovka, and these settlements themselves are controlled by the forces of the republic. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The main goal in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.
