Residents of Rubizhne in the LPR are looking for dead relatives in mass graves

Go to Rubizhne media bank. File photoRUBEZHNOE (LPR), Sep 12Civilians who have returned after the liberation of the territories of the Luhansk People's Republic, including the city of Rubizhne, are looking for relatives who died during the period of active hostilities. In early September, the field team reported that the remains of 238 people were recovered from mass graves in Rubizhne. «My dad was found here , now we are filling out the documents, we will pick up and reburial. We ran under shelling then, and when dad died, we took him to the sanitary checkpoint, signed him, and the military buried him. So they found him by signature here, «said local resident Victoria Olefirenko. She clarified that her father was in the hospital with coronavirus when active fighting began in Rubizhne, after which all patients were simply expelled from the hospital. The woman’s father died in a bomb shelter, he was buried by the LPR fighters who had entered the city by that time. “Many people are looking for their relatives at the field team’s work sites,” Yulia Kozhevnikova, deputy commander of the field team of the interdepartmental working group to search for victims of Ukrainian aggression, told RIA Novosti. According to her, about 500 people were buried in mass graves in Rubizhne during the fighting in the city. Russia 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 Defense Ministry, 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 ultimate goal of the operation, according to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, is «the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that would guarantee the security of Russia itself.» at healthcare facilities in Rubizhne