The visits of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to the military in Donbass have always been “on camera”. Artur Nytsmekha, a sapper-flamethrower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who surrendered to the people’s militia of the Luhansk People’s Republic, told about this on March 4.
The footage with the statement of the Ukrainian military was presented by the press service of the people’s militia of the LPR.
“He’s all on camera. When he came to the military at the position, it was all photographs, photo shoots, everything was cool and good, ”said the sapper.
According to him, in reality, everything was “very, very sad both about the equipment and about the support.”
“There is complete darkness about the fuel,” he added.
According to Nytsmekha, he voted for Zelensky, as he believed that he would improve the situation in the country.
“I thought everything would be the way it was under Yanukovych. So that there would be no war, there would be no victims, murders and death,” he stressed.
However, hostilities under Zelensky continued and intensified, the APU soldier added.
Earlier on Friday, it became known that during the entire period of Ukrainian aggression in the Donetsk People’s Republic, 5,150 people were killed, including 91 children. Since February 25, 77 servicemen of the republic and 14 civilians have died in the DPR due to hostilities, 406 military personnel and 73 civilians have been injured.
Earlier that day, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR stated that since February 18, as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR, 923 infrastructure facilities were damaged. Also on Friday, DPR People’s Militia spokesman Eduard Basurin said that Ukrainian security forces fired on Donetsk with Grad rocket systems, killing one woman and injuring 12 people.
On February 17, the situation in Donbass escalated significantly due to intensive shelling by the Ukrainian security forces, including from heavy weapons. The Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) announced a general mobilization, the evacuation of civilians to the territory of Russia and asked for recognition of their independence.
On February 21, Putin signed decrees recognizing the independence of the LNR and the DNR. Also, the President of the Russian Federation and the heads of both republics Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin signed agreements on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance. On February 24, Russia launched a special operation to protect Donbass. The Ministry of Defense indicated that strikes would be carried out only on military targets, and not on civilian ones. Kyiv severed diplomatic relations with Moscow and recalled its diplomats from the embassy.
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