DPR forces advance towards Sloviansk

Soldiers of the artillery crew of the People's Militia of the LPR firing from a 152-millimeter D-20 howitzer at the positions of the Armed ForcesDONETSK, 10 Jun. Units of the Donetsk People's Republic are approaching Slovyansk, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported in the Telegram channel. «There is an advance in the direction of Slovyansk,» the publication says. and the Lugansk Republics, with the fire support of the Russian Armed Forces, liberated 235 settlements in the DPR, including Trypillya, Vladimirovka (Artemovsky district), Stavki and Lipovoye (Krasnolimansky district). Slavyansk is a city with a population of more than 100 thousand people, located in the north of the DPR. There is a thermal power plant and several industrial enterprises. In April 2014, after the start of the Ukrainian operation against the inhabitants of Donbass, the first active battles began in Slovyansk. Since July 2014, the city has been controlled by the Kyiv authorities. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. As Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Armed Forces only strike at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. By the end of March, they managed to «significantly reduce the combat potential of Ukraine.» The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.